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e-TiM: The Halakhic Journey of Jewish Women: Mitzvot, Learning, and Leadership

Program details

Dates

February 2, 2026 to February 23, 2026

Time

Mondays 2:15 PM to 3:15 PM Eastern

Next class

Monday February 2, 2026

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The Halakhic Journey of Jewish Women: Mitzvot, Learning, Leadership, and the Meanings of Dress

Rabbanit Nechama Goldman Barash

The Halakhic Journey of Jewish Women traces how women’s religious lives have been shaped, challenged, and reimagined through halakhic sources and lived practice. Together, these sessions invite thoughtful engagement with tradition, change, and the ongoing negotiation of women’s identity within halakhic life.

February 2: Positive Time-Bound Mitzvot: Rethinking Women’s Exemption
February 9: Expanding the Beit Midrash: Women’s Learning and Leadership
February 16: What We Wear and What It Signals: Clothing, Halakha, and Identity
February 23: What We Cover and Why: Hair, Halakha, and Meaning

Topics:

Women & Judaism

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Rabbanit Nechama Goldman Barash

Rabbanit Nechama Goldman Barash teaches contemporary halakhah and Talmud at Matan, Midreshet Torah V’Avodah (MTVA), Amudim and the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem. She is the educational director of the Pardes Learning Seminar. She moved to Israel in 1991, after graduating with B.A. from Stern College in New York. Nechama holds a master's degree in Talmud from Bar-Ilan University and is a graduate of Nishmat’s Yoetzet Halacha program and fertility counselor's program, which certified her to serve as an advisor to

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