As a Center for Wisdom, we offer (starting summer 2024) online, both live and video-on-demand learning opportunities to master skills for good interpersonal relationships, inner life growth, and lives of depth in the spiritual search for meaning and purpose.

 

The basics of such wisdom is understood as Virtue (our moral character, how we comport ourselves), Rationality and Reasoning (thinking well and communicating with others thoughtfully), and Insight and Transformation (understanding and transformation our inner lives). Further reaches of wisdom including guidance in the life of depth.

 

The wisdom we teach integrates teachings from world religions and spiritual traditions as well as various schools of thought in philosophy and psychology that teach practical and spiritual wisdom for human growth and transformation

 

Much of this wisdom is consolidated in Wisdom Works, a practical approach to the skills of virtue, rationality and insight formulated by Rabbi Finley.

 

Ohr HaTorah also provides weekly Shabbat online gatherings, open to all. In these gatherings, we have a brief religious service, and then offer teachings that address the concerns of the Center for Wisdom – virtue, thinking well, inner life work and the spiritual search. We study Torah with a focus on the inner life, archetypal-psychology dimensions. Time to time we will discuss current events, with a focus on a rational, factual understanding of what is happening, and moral analysis.

 

We will also offer services and teachings for the major Jewish holidays, as well as other teaching on Jewish religious topics, focusing on the inner life dimension.