A new way of learning Torah!! Join us on a introductory journey into Deep Torah as together we study and explore Torah in a radically different quasi-mystical way, a way that often reveals new, compelling and inspiring ideas that you've most likely never considered. 

Our approach, based on a concept, originally experienced at the Basic Studies Program at the University of Chicago, is an eye-opening radically different approach to Torah study - a very close letter-by-letter, word-by-word reading of the Torah that will open you to new understandings of our ancient mysterious text.
This class is for people of all levels and it will be an introductory session of the opening text of B'reishit (Genesis).

Mel Brown is an entrepreneur, community leader, artist and occasional mystic descended from a family of Eastern European rabbis and artists that originally came from Spain.

He has been a life long dedicated student and teacher of Jewish mystical texts and also co-founded and currently co-leads the post-denominational Boston Jewish spiritual community, "Shabbat by the Creek". Mel is the founder and co-owner of the international children's toy company Crocodile Creek and is also a practicing artist, recently having had a solo exhibit at Hebrew College. You can see his artwork here.

Mel grew up in Northwest Indiana, the grandson of an Orthodox Rabbi who trained in the Slobotka Yeshiva. Before founding Crocodile Creek, he studied medicine and sociology In his early years, worked in the Gary Indiana steel mills, lived on the Navajo reservation in New Mexico, fished with local fisherman in Sicily, tended apple orchards on an Israeli kibbutz, and was an aspiring cartoonist.

He currently lives in Newton MA.