What Next?

Hi, Everyone,

So what will be our next unit? I will have some suggestions, as will you. Let's process them together and see what comes to the fore.

Assume the unit will be ten weeks long,

Two ideas from me to start things off:

1. We could dedicate ourselves to recrafting how the Shacharit service is done, not by eliminating the liturgy, but by spreading the readings out the various people, by altering how we use music and how much we use, etc. The advantages of such a project are two: First, in revising the service, we will become deeply familiar with its structure and the interplay and relative importance of its elements
2. We could do a study on David Stern's remarkable, prophetic book, Messianic Jewish Manifesto as a means of developing a six week course on Messianic Judaism using it as a text. That course would be taught at Ahavat Zion or at the Stern Center.
   
3. We could work together on my book, "I Am The Door: Yeshua and Jewish LIfe--Entrance Not Exit." I would work on one chapter each week and the class would read, review, critique and improve it. At the end we would have a book for publishing.
   

What do you think of these ideas? And do you have any others?

Do tell!

Rabbi Stuart