Temple Beth El of Boca Raton

Parsha Perspectives
2025-12-26 11:00 - 12:00, 2026-01-16 11:00 - 12:00, 2026-01-23 11:00 - 12:00, 2026-01-30 11:00 - 12:00, 2026-02-06 11:00 - 12:00, 2026-02-20 11:00 - 12:00, 2026-02-27 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Temple Beth El – Schaefer Family Campus, 333 SW 4th Avenue, Boca Raton, FL, 33432, United States
Join Rabbi Laila Haas to explore the weekly Torah portion. We will uncover timeless wisdom and contemporary relevance in our sacred texts. The discussions will blend traditional commentary with modern insights, creating space for questions, discoveries, and meaningful conversations.
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Torah Study with Rabbi Dan Levin
2025-12-27 09:30 - 10:30, 2026-01-24 09:30 - 10:30, 2026-01-31 09:30 - 10:30, 2026-02-07 09:30 - 10:30, 2026-02-21 09:30 - 10:30 (America/New_York)
Join Rabbi Dan Levin for Saturday morning Torah Study.
In person and Virtual at the links below.
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Torah Study with Rabbi Greg Weisman
2026-01-03 09:30 - 10:30 (America/New_York)
Join Rabbi Greg Weisman for Saturday morning Torah Study.
In person and Virtual at the links below.
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Lunch & Learn: Our Core Social Justice Principles
2026-01-06 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-01-13 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-01-20 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
Taught by Rabbi Greg Weisman
The Social Justice work at Temple Beth El is based on thirteen Core Principles, grounded in 5 Jewish Values. Join Rabbi Greg Weisman for an exploration of the Jewish teachings – some ancient, some modern, some in between – that illustrate our Social Justice Core Principles. Explore how these texts guide and inspire the work of our congregation to pursue a world that is more fair and just.
Join us in person at the Schaefer Family Campus or online.
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Parsha Perspectives
2026-01-09 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
Join Rabbi Greg Weisman to explore the weekly Torah portion. We will uncover timeless wisdom and contemporary relevance in our sacred texts. The discussions will blend traditional commentary with modern insights, creating space for questions, discoveries, and meaningful conversations.
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Torah Study with Rabbi Ashira Boxman
2026-01-10 09:30 - 10:30 (America/New_York)
Join Rabbi Ashira Boxman for Saturday morning Torah Study.
In person and Virtual at the links below.
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Understanding the Ideals and Realities of Islam - Wisdom & Wonder Series with Rabbi Michael Paley
2026-01-15 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
The Arab world and the People of Islam has become an everyday concern for us as Jews and as Americans. Words like Hamas, Sunni and Shi’a are commonplace but what do they mean? Our session will be devoted to telling the origin story of Islam in a way that will also engage Jewish history and tradition. We will learn about how and why Islam grew so fast and what happened when it confronted the modern world. Terms and perspectives will be clarified and put into a broader context to help us understand the ideals and realities in Islam.
Rabbi Paley earned graduate degrees in Jewish and Islamic Philosophy and Science at Temple University.
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Shabbat Evening Services: Are We the Ever Dying People? A Case Study in Jewish Resilience with Rabbi Michael Paley (Wisdom & Wonder Series)
2026-01-16 18:00 - 20:00 UTC
We’re so sorry, this event has reached capacity. For any questions, please contact Susie Federman at SFederman@tbeboca.org . Thank you.
6:00 pm Shabbat Services
Followed by Optional Dinner and Learning with Rabbi Michael Paley
Rabbi Michael Paley, our Wisdom & Wonder speaker, will participate in our Shabbat Evening Service.
In 1967, Prof. Simon Rawidowicz’s article, “Israel: The Ever Dying People” was published 10 years after his death. The 1950’s had been a time of Jewish optimism but around the Six Day War fear had returned to the Jewish community. The essay focused on how every generation of Jews feels they are the last ones. Antisemitism, pogroms, expulsions and assimilation were always about to overcome us. In our times, we are no different. So how did we not only survive but thrive? Together we will explore the challenges of the post Holocaust, post-Communist Hungarian Jewish community as a case study of Jewish innovation and resilience.
Dinner and Learning Experience Pricing:
Members: $35 per person
Guests of Members: $40 per person
Prices increase by $5 per person as of Monday, January 5.
*REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED.
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Torah Study with Rabbi Michael Paley: The Magic Staff and the De-Creation of Egypt (Wisdom & Wonder Series)
2026-01-17 09:30 - 10:30 (America/New_York)
Join Wisdom & Wonder guest Rabbi Michael Paley for this special Torah Study. This parsha features the first seven plagues and represents one of the turning points of the Torah. We will explore the roots of the renewed covenant and the confrontation between Moses, Aaron, Pharaoh, and the Egyptian magicians. In doing so, we will uncover threads that reach back to the beginning of creation and find expression in our Friday night Kiddush.
In person and Virtual at the links below.
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Lunch & Learn: The Song of Redemption and the Song of Confession
2026-01-27 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
Taught by Cantor Josh Breitzer
On Shabbat Shira, we recount the Exodus from Egypt and the ancient tune our people sang on the shores of the sea. Throughout Yom Kippur, we count our shortcomings by tapping our hearts in time to a version of that same tune. How can this be? Explore tshe musical connection between two starkly contrasting sacred occasions and consider its implications for us today.
Cantor Josh Breitzer is president of the American Conference of Cantors and has served Congregation Beth Elohim in Brooklyn since his 2011 ordination from Hebrew Union College. Named by The Forward as a leading voice of Jewish music, Cantor Breitzer has sung and taught in communities throughout North America and around the world. Cantor Breitzer is an instructor at HUC and on faculty at URJ Crane Lake Camp. He lives with his wife Donna and their two sons, Jonah and Gideon.
Join us in person at the Schaefer Family Campus or online.
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Lunch & Learn: Encountering Elijah: Stories, Texts, and Timeless Meaning
2026-02-03 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-02-10 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-02-17 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-02-24 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
Taught by Dr. Kris Lindbeck
Join us for a captivating exploration of Elijah—one of Judaism’s most inspiring and enduring figures—scholar and storyteller Dr. Kris Lindbeck. Journey through biblical narratives, Rabbinic midrash, and later legends to discover how Elijah speaks to faith, justice, and divine connection. This course will deepen your understanding of a figure who continues to shape Jewish thought across the ages. Dr. Lindbeck is an Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Florida Atlantic University. She holds a masters in Talmud and Rabbinics from the Jewish Theological Seminary and a doctorate in Ancient Judaism.
Join us in person at the Schaefer Family Campus or online.
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What Does it Mean to be Human? - Wisdom & Wonder Series with Rabbi Rachel Mikva
2026-02-12 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
What does it mean to be human? Are we good? Are we free? Are we more than dust? Religious convictions about the fundamental nature of human beings significantly influence public policy related to criminal justice, abortion, gender, and more. They are frequently invoked in America’s contemporary “culture wars.” By broadening our collective understanding of what it means to be human, we resist the establishment of one particular Christian perspective as determinative for the entire body politic.
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Parsha Perspectives with Rabbi Rachel Mikva
2026-02-13 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
Join SPECIAL GUEST Rabbi Rachel Mikva to explore the weekly Torah portion. We will uncover timeless wisdom and contemporary relevance in our sacred texts. The discussions will blend traditional commentary with modern insights, creating space for questions, discoveries, and meaningful conversations.
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Shabbat Evening Services: Rabbi Rachel Mikva and February Birthday Blessings (Wisdom & Wonder Series)
2026-02-13 19:30 - 21:00 UTC
Rabbi Rachel Mikva will focus on dangerous religious ideas—all religious ideas are dangerous—not only those we might consider extremist, but even those that stand at the heart of faith, and your own. Because most religious traditions have always understood this peril, they have transmitted tools of self-critique. Putting Jewish thought and practice in conversation with Christianity and Islam, we explore how the potential for blessing in religion is bound up with its potential for harm, and the necessity of self-critical faith.
We will also be offering a special blessing to everyone born in the month of February.

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Torah Study with Rabbi Rachel Mikva (Wisdom & Wonder Series)
2026-02-14 09:30 - 10:30 (America/New_York)
The CCAR is developing a new Torah commentary, and Rabbi Mikva was asked to curate material (historical and modern, traditional and radical) for Parashat Noach. Be part of the conversation that shapes this important project!
In person and Virtual at the links below.
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About Rabbi Rachel Mikva
Rabbi Rachel Mikva, Herman E. Schaalman Professor of Jewish Studies and Senior Faculty Fellow at the Chicago Theological Seminary, served as a congregational rabbi for thirteen years before returning to academia. Her research and teaching focus on interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in various times and places, exploring how the ideas both shape and reflect the societies in which they unfold. The most profound truths are not simple ones, and they often live in dialectical tension with other truths. Pursuit of justice is essential, but the equally compelling call to mercy sometimes (gently) pushes justice aside. Freedom is a God-given right, but freedom without commitment and purpose leaves us rootless. Peace is our perpetual desire, even as we sometimes decide we must fight. We also live with the breathtaking and terrifying knowledge that religious passion is a catalyst for great good, but all too often is wielded as a weapon. She holds an AB from Stanford University, Rabbinic Ordination, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and a PhD from Jewish Theological Seminary.
