Classes

                           

B’nai Mitzvah Class for Adults and Kids
By appointment only
Saturdays 8:45 am - 9:30 am 

Teacher: Cantor Rudy Hassid

Join Cantor Rudy Hassid for a class that will help you prepare for your B’nai Mitzvah.  Learn the basics of chanting the Saturday morning service. 

Once the service has been mastered, continue on to learn the Torah Trope and Haftarah Trope. Baal Koreh Zvi Kalinski will tutor you on your individual portion if you wish to have an individual Bar/Bat Mitzvah. 

If you wish to have a group service, the portion will be divided among the participants. All participants will study with Rabbi Moshe Levin for six months prior to their Bar/Bat Mitzvah.

                         

West Bay Nigunim Chorus
Tuesdays 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Teacher: Achi Ben Shalom

Singing, friendship and joyful music! This group of music lovers practices a mixture of traditional, modern and original pieces in two, three and four part harmony, mostly in Hebrew, some Yiddish, Ladino and English. Ability to read music is helpful but not required. The group performs 3-4 times a year. For more information, please contact mail@nigunim.org.

                  

Painting Class
Wednesdays 7:15 pm - 8:30 pm 

Teacher: Al Bernzweig

Join artist and framer Al Bernzweig for an exciting class in painting.  The class will begin by doing black and white pencil drawing.  You will learn basic drawing in perspective.  The class will progress to painting a subject of your choice using water color pencils.  Watercolor or water-soluble pencils are a unique cross-over between drawing and painting. You draw with them as you would with any pencil, but then if you run a wet brush over your drawing, the color is dispersed and turns into a watercolor wash. The pencils have the advantage of being easy to use, relatively inexpensive, and they don't leave you with a mess to clean up.

Painting in other medium will be available on request.

Supplies needed:  #2 pencil and soft eraser, a box of watercolor pencils and some simple brushes.

   

Beginning and Intermediate Hebrew
Wednesdays 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Teacher: Miryam Brender

Miryam Brender teaches this group to read and understand Hebrew, Beginning and Intermediate are welcome. Miryam Brender is using an interactive, entertaining curriculum that accommodates a variety of levels. Born and raised in Jerusalem of pre-state era, and receiving traditional Mesorti education, Miryam’s Hebrew is very authentic. It is an opportunity to brush up on both classical and modern Hebrew with a passionate, inspiring teacher.

   

Torah Study Morning Minyan

Thursdays, 9:30 AM

Teacher: Rabbi Moshe Levin

Rabbi Levin’s class is lively, interactive and thought-provoking! The weekly Parasha is studied and discussed over bagels & coffee. Students are encouraged to actively search and discover new meanings in the text. A discussion on current affairs of Jewish interest, and reciting the Mourners Kaddish complete each session.

  

The Bible as Literature 

Thursdays, 7:00 PM

(New season starting. Call Ner Tamid office at (415) 661-3383 for more information.)

Teacher: Rabbi Moshe Levin

In this class we will approach the Bible as literature, appreciating the myths, laws, rituals & values in the context of their time. Our goal will be to understand the text, not preach. Then we will turn to preachers and other great medieval scholars, both Jewish and Christian. The class concludes with a brief spiritual thought from the prolific genius of the 20th Century, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel.