HOUSE OF LEARNING
Book time with our Learning Guides
Learning Guide: our daytime hosts who bridge the tavern and house of learning. Each of our learning guides are available to be an onramp to learning and text study. Book time with them to begin your learning journey at Lehrhaus.
Who can participate in 1:1 Learning? Members are welcome to unlimited 1:1 sessions as 1:1 learning is included in the cost of membership ($36/month).
If you are not a member, we limit free 1:1 learning to 3 sessions. If you are interested in continuing after 3 sessions, we ask that you either join as a member or purchase a day pass ($10) per session. This helps ensure that we are able to compensate our Learning Guides for their time and expertise.
Who is currently bookable?
Rivka Nechemya Thrope (any/all) is a third-year rabbinical student at Hebrew College. He is an experienced learner and educator, having taught in farm, day school, and adult learning environments. While in college, Rivka Nechemya started an intergenerational learning program, and is especially interested in the types of relationships that are fostered through chavrusa study. Talk to him about Jewish creative writing and poetry, mishnah and Gemara, and learning about liturgy and prayer.
Abby Fisher (they/them) is an educator and playwright currently studying for Rabbinic Ordination at Hebrew College. Last summer, their original play, which explores queer coming of age in a Torah-centered community premiered off Broadway at New York City's The Tank theater. Their writing has appeared in The Huffington Post, Lilith Magazine, The Jewish Daily Forward, and The Jewish Women's Archive. Abby's approach to text is curiosity-driven, letting questions arise and drive us through the material. In particular, Abby loves to learn aggadic (story-based) passages of Talmud, which showcase how the rabbis made meaning from the mundane. Let's go on a Torah adventure together!
Alex Goldfarb (he/him) is a fifth-year rabbinical student at Hebrew College. He has led and co-founded a variety of social enterprises and nonprofits, including a Jewish garden education organization, a sustainable fishing company in Somaliland, and a solar development company in the Horn of Africa. He is an enthusiastic learner and teacher of rabbinic literature - at Brandeis Hillel, Lehrhaus, Temple Emanu-El, or wherever his bicycle happens to take him.
Aaron Berc (he/him) is a fourth year Rabbinical Student at Hebrew College where his studies seek to explore the question of "who are we to one another?" Prior to Rabbinical school, Aaron had stints in both Corporate America and in Jewish Non-Profits. Most recently, Aaron worked as a Community Organizer at Jewish Community Action, where he organized the Twin Cities Jewish community around issues of affordable housing and economic justice. Aaron previously served as a Rabbinic Intern at Shir Tikvah Minneapolis, Temple Sinai of Brookline, and Temple Emanuel of Newton. Aaron graduated from the University of Kansas, with a BS in Environmental Studies and a minor concentration in Physics. He also received a Certificate of Jewish Ethics and Social Justice from the Jewish Theological Seminary
Lindsay Flammey Furman (she/her) is a lifelong lover of Jewish learning. Her professional journey as a Jewish educator has encompassed a wide variety of Jewish settings including University of Miami Hillel, Temple Beth Elohim (Wellesley, MA), and most recently, Schechter Boston. Lindsay approaches learning, studying, and teaching as a relationship-based endeavor, both with her chevruta and with the text itself. In addition to taking delight in parsing and translating Biblical Hebrew texts, Lindsay finds joy in playing disc golf, reading a good book, and going for long walks with her husband and dog.