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The Annual Goodkind
Scholar-in-Residence Weekend
Friday - Saturday, October 23 - 24, 2026: Rabbi Elyse Frishman
Spring Scholar-in-Residence Weekend
Friday - Saturday, April 16 - 17, 2027: Becky Mann
​Friday, October 23
6:30 PM
Erev Shabbat Drash: “Turn It and Turn It…”
The Bratzlaver taught, “Every new beginning requires that you open new doors.” Were it so easy, all doors would be flung open. And we’re thoughtful, experienced, intelligent, value-driven, even wise! What are the new keys for a new era?
7:30 PM Erev Shabbat Dinner: “Grant Me a Heart of Many Rooms”
Let’s shape a spiritual ecology that will open us to one another. (But must it include those we suspect of treachery?) Rabbah Noyman Eyal teaches, “Most downfalls begin in trusting our own perception.” How might we shift our perspectives? The sefirot of Kabbalah offers a new lens. Dinner will be $36 per person.​
Saturday, October 24
10:00 AM Shabbat Morning Drash: “Lech Lecha: ‘Should I stay or should I go?’”
The Clash Faith is complicated. And essential. Let’s talk about the God who urges us to move forward, and walks with us. The God who insists that we choose Life. And let’s raise the questions and hurts that build the barriers around our hearts. Who are the Jews we will become?
11:00 AM Shabbat Luncheon: “Dropping the Torah or I Thought I Knew What I was Doing”
There had to be a deep reason why when God said to Avram, “Lech lecha from where you’ve been, and move towards Me,” Avram heard God. If everything had been so great in his life and world, Avram would never have listened. What opened him? Hinenu, here we are. The unthinkable is happening now… What do we hear from Above?
More about Rabbi Elyse Frishman
Rabbi Elyse Frishman was ordained in 1981, and served as Barnert's Senior Rabbi for 22 years before retiring in 2017. In 2007, The Forward named her one of America’s top three Jews for her work in shaping Mishkan Tefilah, the first fully transliterated and polyvocal work of its kind now widely used in Reform congregations nationally and internationally. Since 2019, she has immersed in the study of Kabbalah, engaging 3 times weekly on Zoom with an Israeli community, and traveling to Israel 3 times yearly to study in person. The study is transformational and she brings it to all her teaching.