Please join Beth Aharon & the Bayit on Shabbat Vayikra, March 21 as we welcome Rabbi Hayyim Angel to our community

Rabbi Hayyim Angel is the National Scholar of the Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals, continuing the life-work of his father HaRav Marc Angel.  Rav Hayyim Angel has taught advanced Bible courses to undergraduate, graduate, and rabbinical students at Yeshiva University since 1996. He also lectures widely in synagogues and schools throughout North America, and consults with yeshivot worldwide to improve their Tanakh curricula. He has authored 16 books and edited 4 other books, and has published over 150 scholarly articles, primarily in Bible.  Rav Hayyim’s scholarship focuses on the interaction between traditional and academic approaches to Bible study. He is editor of Conversations, the journal of the Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals. The Angel family is of Ottoman Sephardi ancestry from Turkey and Rhodes. Rav Hayyim's mother, Gilda Angel z”l, of Ashkenazi descent, authored the book Sephardic Holiday Cooking: Recipes and Traditions. Rav Hayyim lives in Teaneck, New Jersey with his wife and four children.

Shabbat Schedule:

• Erev Shabbat After Tefillah at Beth Aharon:
  Introductory D'var Torah for the Theme of the Shabbat

• D'var Torah Before Musaf at Beth Aharon:
  The Sephardic Community Model: It’s Good for the Jews

• 12:30pm: Shabbat Lunch** (paid/by reservation only):
  A Sephardic Approach to Tradition and Modernity: Rabbi Benzion Uziel and Rabbi Ḥaim David Halevi

• 6:50pm: Seudah Shlishit After Mincha 
  Sephardic and Ashkenazic Liturgy: What We Can Learn from One Another

**Lunch Reservations: 
Registration for lunch is required. Register by Wednesday, March 18th.
Cost: $120/family; $40/adult (age 17 and up); $20/child (ages 4-16)