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Our Talmudic sages cautioned Jews against going abroad alone at night. You could fall into a ditch, invite scandalous gossip, be robbed or murdered. Be especially afraid on Tuesday nights and Erev Shabbat. The demoness “Agrat, daughter of Mahalat, she and 180,000 angels of destruction go out at these times.” (Pesachim 112b:15). Then, in the 15th century, a nadol gamur, a new thing which hadn’t existed before, was introduced to the world by way of Ethiopia and Yemen: coffee. Coffee stimulates wakefulness. “Coffee makes the night a day, and thoughts sharper than a blade”. Coffee and the coffeehouse culture it seeded liberated the night for purposes pious to profane, political to philosophical. Coffee was a great disrupter. Wherever coffee houses insinuated themselves, trouble brewed. How has Judaism responded to coffee and coffee houses? What influence have they had on Jewish religious practices and secular culture over the succeeding five centuries? Retired New Orleans tour guide, David Feldman, will talk about these questions - over coffee.
Free for members | $10 non-members
RSVP by Thursday, October 8
Stressed? If you're feeling it, chances are your child is feeling it too. You know the signs; when your mind starts racing and your heartbeat starts racing, your tendency is to get louder and faster. But what you and your body and your child need is for things to slow down and start making sense.
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