What has made Psalms such a source of inspiration for generations of Jews and Christians? How are we to understand the message of these prayers and poems? Who wrote them and why did they express themselves in this way? We will study a few psalms together, some that are well-known and some that have not been included in any formal liturgy, and see how they express a range of feelings about life and death, fear and faith, that may resonate with our own experience and inner lives.
Rabbi Edward Feld is the senior editor of Mahzor Lev Shalem (2010) and the author of The Spirit of Renewal: Finding Faith after the Holocaust (1994). He has served as Rabbi-in-Residence at the Jewish Theological Seminary and as Hillel Director and Chaplain to the College at Princeton University and Smith and Amherst Colleges. As the Educational Director of Rabbis for Human Rights he developed a curriculum for teaching Judaism and human rights.
