Are you ready for Yom Kippur? Join renowned educator Rabba Dr Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz for the second shiur in a two-part series, offered in partnership with the Pop-up Beit Midrash. We are grateful to the Maureen Kendler Educational Trust for sponsoring these shiurim. 

'Bracketing Yom Kippur: The Poems of Kol Nidrei and the Amidah of Ne'ilah'

One of the challenges on the High Holidays is the number of words to get through. In this shiur, we will slow down and examine four short piyutim (poems) from the Kol Nidrei service, as well as taking a closer look at the unique Amidah of the Ne'ilah service at the other end of Yom Kippur.

Rabba Dr Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz received her doctorate from University College London in 2016, and Orthodox rabbinical ordination from Yeshivat Maharat, New York, in June 2021.  She has been an affiliated or associated lecturer or research fellow at the universities of Manchester, Cambridge, Oxford, SOAS, King's College London, and Vassar College in New York State. She is also a Research Fellow at the London School of Jewish Studies, and has presented at Limmud in the UK, the Netherlands, and South Africa. Her first book is Challenge and Conformity: The Religious Lives of Orthodox Jewish Women, which was published in 2021 by the Littman Library of Jewish Civilization.  She recently completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Manchester, during which she researched her upcoming book on the history and development of Limmud.