Elul Guest Scholar Dalia Marx

Sponsored in part by the Rabbi Fred N. Reiner Life Long Learning Fund

Rabbi Dr. Dalia Marx will be the featured guest speaker for our month of Elul preparations for the new year. She will speak at:

• Shabbat services, Friday, September 5, at 6:30 pm with an oneg preceding the service at 6:00 pm
• Torah Study, Saturday, September 6, at 9:15 am
• Kehillat Shabbat services, Saturday, September 6 at 10:30 am with a kiddush lunch following the service.
  RSVP for lunch.

Rabbi Marx describes the month of Elul as a time of soul-searching and repentance (teshuvah) that are individual and personal but that take place within a larger matrix of mutual responsibility and an effort to seek the face of God and other people. Elul concludes the Hebrew year, but it also flows into the year to come, as a month of self-evaluation (cheshbon ha-nefesh), doing teshuvah, and preparing our hearts for the Days of Awe, the new year, and its blessings (From Time to Time, 333). Her teachings will focus on this time of year and elevate our engagement with this special period on the Jewish calendar.

About Rabbi Marx

Rabbi Dalia Marx, Ph.D., is the Rabbi Aaron D. Panken Professor of Liturgy and Midrash at Hebrew Union College’s Taube Family Campus in Jerusalem, and teaches in various academic institutions in Israel and Europe.

Marx, a tenth generation Jerusalemite, earned her doctorate at the Hebrew University and her rabbinic ordination at Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem and Cincinnati in 2002. She is involved in various research projects and is active in promoting liberal Judaism in Israel. Marx writes for academic and popular journals and publications.

Marx is the lead editor of the Israeli Reform siddur, Tfillat HaAdam (2020). She is the author of When I Sleep and When I Wake: On Prayers between Dusk and Dawn (Yediot Sfarim, 2010, in Hebrew), A Feminist Commentary of the Babylonian Talmud (Mohr Siebeck, 2013). She is currently working on the new Israeli Reform High Holidays Machzor, together with Rabbi Leora Ezrachi.

Her book on the Jewish calendar, From Time to Time: Journeys in the Jewish Calendar (CCAR Press, 2024), was the core text for our adult learning course over the past year. Rabbi Dalia’s HUC podcast with Rabbi Dan Prath, Kanfei Ruach (Produced and Edited by Doron Levin) about Jewish Prayer.

Marx lives in Jerusalem with her husband, Roly Zyblersztein, Ph.D. They have three children.