Judaism is about Love, hesed. What does that really mean? We are living in difficult times with challenges in our personal lives, Jewish community, country and beyond. Let’s draw on Jewish wisdom that can be inspiring, comforting and most importantly help us cultivate resiliency. We will begin with a history of the Hassidic movement - which was an anti-establishment, deeply spiritual alternative in its time - and study inheritors of it teachings: Martin Buber, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, and current theologians who have been influenced by them. Heschel, who lost family in the Holocaust and was active in the Civil Rights Movement, famously taught that Judaism is about a “leap of action” (not a leap of faith) that is informed by the experiential, ethical and spiritual. Ultimately our conversation will not only be intellectual but also one that will move us towards considering how we strive to live and to act as individuals and as a community. We will also look at Temple B’nai Abraham’s Guiding Values that were inspired by the very ideas we will study. Optional reading will be provided.