This is a two part series and it is highly recommended to attend both. Purchasing a ticket to one date will serve as a ticket for both, we just ask that you email us to let us know you will be attending both! Email learning@lehr.haus.

March 26th and April 2nd, 5:30-6:45 PM

Though often absent from modern Jewish learning, angels captivated the rabbinic imagination and they feature prominently in Jewish liturgy. Unique among them is the Angel Metatron - the Prince of the Presence, who started out as flesh and blood, and, made an angel, was elevated to such degree that he was allowed to sit on the divine throne.

It is perhaps not surprising, given this “Star” status in heaven, that Metatron received quite a few a pop-culture treatments in recent years. But is the angel Metatron of Talmudic text, anything like his pop culture depictions in books (His Dark Matters), on film (Dogma) and on TV (Good Omens)? Join us on an exploration of Jewish text and find out!

No Hebrew or background knowledge necessary.

Eliana Jacobowitz serves as the rabbi of Congregation B’nai Brith in Somerville. She studied Law and visual art/fashion design in Israel. She holds a Masters degree in History of the Middle Ages from BU, as well as Masters degree in Jewish Studies from Hebrew College, where she was ordained in 2010. In her teaching, she focuses on Jewish mysticism, the intersection of Judaism and the arts, and Holocaust education. When not rabbi-ing, She makes tallitot and other fabric Judaica that she sells on her Etsy shop, reads, and cuddles with her cat, Shunra.