Beth El Welcomes Storahtelling!
A Shabbat Weekend of Jewish Learning and Torah Experience for our entire community March 23rd – March 25th
After a year of “Sharing our Stories” at BETC, we are so pleased to welcome STORAHTELLING! Using an innovative fusion of scholarship, storytelling, performing arts and new media, Storahtelling programs restore the Torah service to their original stature through the Maven – the traditional storyteller who translated the Hebrew Torah into local language. While rooted in the biblical text and ritual practices, their programs bridge the past and the present and make stories matter again.
The Torah Service is the world's oldest continuous ritual of sacred storytelling. Conducted for more than 2,500 years, it was once the primary source of Judaic literacy for the wider community. In the beginning, story mattered. Woven through the generations, sacred stories charted community courses and mapped individual life journeys. Today, the Torah Service is still conducted weekly and continues to serve as the main event for the initiation of youth into the adult community. Yet, for the majority of world Jewry, the ritual has lost much of its power to inform and engage - and the Torah, core to the Jewish identity, remains a closed book. Today, many are denied access to the relevance and transformative power of their inherited legacies. The People of the Book often don't know what's in it.
Storahtelling restores the Torah Service to its original stature through a revival of the lost craft of the Maven, the traditional storyteller who translated the Hebrew Torah into local language. Rooted in biblical text and ritual practice, and bridging past and present, Storahtelling makes story matter again. Using an innovative fusion of scholarship, storytelling, performing arts and new media, Storahtelling programs reclaim the narratives and traditions that define Jewish life yet have failed to adapt to modern times.
JOIN US FOR A WEEKEND OF STORAHTELLING EVENTS – THERE’S SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE!
View the schedule and register online!
