Weekly Torah Wanderings with Rabbi Michael Silbert Join us for an exploration into the week’s Torah reading as we examine this ancient text together, connecting with its enduring meaning and drawing on its contemporary relevance. In addition to understanding Torah in its historic context, we shall discover how it continues to speak to us in our current day by bringing the insights of a range of interpreters–both classic and modern–and finding ways to contribute our own voices. Rabbi Michael Silbert was born and grew up in Cape Town, South Africa, where it never occurred to him that he might one day become a rabbi! More than ten years after beginning Graduate School at Brandeis University, he found himself–much to his own surprise–beginning his rabbinical studies at The Rabbinical School of Hebrew College, in Newton, Massachusetts. He acknowledges that “At age 35, married, with a newborn and a mortgage, I realized that becoming a rabbi actually made sense to me, even if the timing didn’t!” Rabbi Silbert has served as the rabbi/director at Hillel foundations on two different campuses, and for the past (almost) seven years, as the rabbi of Temple Beth David, in Rochester. He and his wife, Rachel, who is also a Jewish educator, live in Pittsford with their two sons and two dogs.