Rabbi Hoffman travels regularly as a scholar in residence,
offering lectures and dialogues for weekend or Shabbaton
programming. He also consults with synagogues engaged in spiritual
renewal, strategic planning, and transformative visioning.
He offers:
Sets of lectures and classes using translated texts from Jewish tradition,
on the following topics:
A Day of Wine and Moses: The Passover Haggadah and the Seder You Have
Always Wanted
Preparing for The High Holy Days: How to Appreciate the Liturgy of Rosh
Hashanah and Yom Kippur
The Essence of Jewish Prayer: The Prayer Book in Context and
Worship In Our Time
Individual Lectures or a Lecture Series on contemporary issues of North
American Jewish identity:
Beyond Ethnicity: The Coming Project for North American Jewish Identity
How We Pray Is Who We Are: This Is Your Life, North American Jews.
The Varieties of Authentic Jewish Spirituality
Looking For God in a Secular World
Limits, Truth and Meaning: The Anxious Search for Meaning in our Time
Synagogue Change: Transforming Synagogues as Spiritual and Moral Centers
for the 21st Century
Freud, Marx and Others: A Dialogue With Critics on Why Ritual Matters