Rabbi Alter is a teacher at heart, committed to the idea that greater understanding can inspire passion for our tradition and a sense of agency within it. He believes that through Torah study we can discover ourselves and our place with God. This is why Jewish learning belongs to us all.
Rabbi Alter’s educational approach shapes many of his interactions with the CBINT community. For example, he and Hazzan Stein offer brief teachings in nearly every prayer service to assure that participants are always learning something new, and he works individually with all b’nei mitzvah to prepare their teachings for the congregation.
Periodically each year Rabbi Alter offers formal courses of study for the congregation. In the fall of 2020, he facilitated a JTS course on Jewish Ethics. Future offerings will include courses on Jewish thought as well as more text-based learning in Bible and Rabbinic literature. Rabbi Alter invites other instructors to offer still more adult education offerings to the CBINT community.
Rabbi Alter and Hazzan Stein teach some Torah at virtually every service, morning and evening.
Rabbi Alter will soon publish his Adult Ed offerings for the coming months, including a resumption of his course on King David and the next round of his introduction to Jewish prayer. Other offerings will also be available from our staff and guest speakers and scholars. Stay tuned!
During the year of mourning for his mother, Reina Alter z”l, Rabbi Alter is learning Talmud in translation with congregants on Wednesday mornings at 8:30. In his office at the synagogue and on Zoom. Newcomers welcome.