The Matan Summer Experience: The Twelve Tribes, From Ancient Roots to Modern

Week 1: The Southern and Transjordan Tribes: Sons of Leah (Reuben, Gad, Simeon, Levi, Judah)

Sunday, July 14 Monday, July 15 Tuesday, July 16 Wednesday, July 17 Thursday, July 18

8:30 - 17:30 8:45 - 10:00 Who Loves the Land? The Request of Reuven, Gad, Bnei Leah Tiyul with Reuven and Gad, Leah’s Whatever Happened to the and Half of Menashe to Stay The Cities of Leviim: Arei Rabbi Alan Haber Eldest Sons Tribe of Shimon? on the Other Side of the Miklat Jordan We’ll visit two different -Tamar Weissman - Rabbi Yoni Rosensweig - Malka Hubscher parts of Yehuda’s vast - Rabbanit Nechama nachala: Bet Guvrin in Goldman Barash the shefela (lowlands) and Gush Etzion at the peak of the mountain range (where we will 10:15 - 11:30 King Solomon - Exemplar of Do the Nachalot of Ever R’ Kook on Yehuda: Uniting The Sceptre Shall Not experience the Kfar Yehuda Who Lost it All ha’Yarden Have Kedushat Three Groups within Israel Depart from Judah- King Etzion visitor’s center Ha’Aretz? David picks up the baton and the Lone Tree - Rabbi Shai Finkelstein - Rabbi Ari Ze’ev Schwartz monument). We’ll see - Rabbanit Surale Rosen - Deena Kahane how the territory of Yehuda has always been integral to the A Virtual Tour of Nachalot settlement and defence 11:45 - 13:00 Shevet Levi Nachalat Yehuda The Menashe Question Reuven v’Gad of the entire country. We will end the day -Tamar Weissman - Rabbi Johnny Solomon - Rabbi Alan Haber - Sarina Novick with a tour and wine ————————————— tasting at the Gush All are encouraged to bring Etzion boutique winery, lunch with you to stay after where all wines are class and meet the other made from grapes summer program grown by Jewish participants! We will farmers. introduce ourselves over lunch at 13:00

The Matan Summer Experience: The Twelve Tribes, From Ancient Roots to Modern Israel

Week 2: The Central Tribes: Sons of Rachel (Ephraim, Manasseh, Dan, Benjamin)

Sunday, July 21 Monday, July 22 Tuesday, July 23 Wednesday, July 24 Thursday, July 25 Yom Iyun for the Fast of 17th of Tammuz

8:30 - 14:00 8:45 - 10:00 Polytheism and Twelve Tribes, Twelve And They Grieved for Character Study of Monotheism: The Benei Stones, One Nation Binyamin: Today One Tribe is Binyamin In the Footsteps of the Rachel Cut Off from Israel Tribes with Shulie - Malka Hubscher - Rabbi Judah Dardik Mishkin - Rabbi Ari Kahn - Racheli Sprecher Fraenkel We will visit various sites in and around Jerusalem connected 10:15 - 11:30 History and Memory Where are the Daughters of To Be or Not To Be: A Tale of Yosef or Yehuda? Will to the tribes of Israel. Ya’akov? Five Sisters the Real Bechor Please We will explore the way - Yael Leibowitz Stand Up! the twelve tribes are - Dr. Chana Tannenbaum - Dr. Avivah Zornberg depicted in art, try and - Geula Twersky reveal the mystery of the lost tribes, and see if there is a connection between the ancient 11:45 - 13:00 The Clash Between Rachel Binyamin and Yehuda: Who Ethiopian Jewry and Shevet The Twelve Tribes in Art tribes and the modern and Leah and the Clash Descended to the Sea First? Dan ethnicities of the State Between their Children - Batnadiv HaKarmi- of Israel. Including the - Dr. Adina Sternberg - Rabbi Johnny Solomon Weinberg Chagall windows, - Rabbi Yitzchak Blau YVEL visitors’ center and more!

The Matan Summer Experience: The Twelve Tribes, From Ancient Roots to Modern Israel

Week 3: The Northern Tribes: Sons of Leah, Zilpah and Bilhah (Issachar, Zebulun, Asher, Naphtali)

Sunday, July 28 Monday, July 29 Tuesday, July 30 Wednesday, July 31 Thursday, Aug 1

8:45 - 10:00 The Comings and Goings of Can We Trace Halakha The Northern Tribes: Is First Dan in the Far North, 8:30 - 19:00 Yissachar and Zevulun Back to the Ten Lost Always Best? Yehuda in the South: The Off the Beaten Track in Tribes? Leonine Tribes the Lower Galil: The - Rabbi Aaron Adler - Rabbanit Shani Taragin Nachalah of Zevulun - Rabbanit Nechama - Dr. Yael Ziegler Like You’ve Never Seen Goldman Barash It Before with Tamar Weissman

We’ll deepen our 10:15 - 11:30 It is a Tree of Life: Midrashic understanding of the Encampment of the Twelve Insights and Halakhic Yissachar and Zevulun: natural contours of this Shevet Asher Tribes in the Desert Ramifications on the Failed Dream and Reality territory with a unique Shevatim’s Right to the Land focus on the two most - Yosefa Wruble - Dr. Chana Tannenbaum - Rabbi Ari Kahn active periods of Jewish - Rabbanit Surale Rosen history in this region: the Talmudic era, and our own day. As we journey 11:45 - 13:00 One God, but Three in and around three of Patriarchs, Four Matriarchs, Zevulun and the Halachik Why Didn’t the Ten Tribes Naftali: Ties that Bind the key valleys that and Twelve Tribes! Value of a Profession Return? make up the lower Galil Thematic Reasons for Twelve - Tamar Weissman — Bet Netofa, Turan, Tribes - Rabbi Yitzchak Blau - Dr. Adina Sternberg and — we’ll visit such little-known - Rabbi Menachem Leibtag treasures as Kaukhab abu el-Hija, Yodfat, Rumet el-Heib, Ilaniya, and the ancient of Arbel.

The Matan Summer Experience: The Twelve Tribes, From Ancient Roots to Modern Israel Sunday, July 28 Monday, July 29 Tuesday, July 30 Wednesday, July 31 Thursday, Aug 1

*תכנית צהריים בתנ״ך : *תכנית צהריים בתנ״ך : *תכנית צהריים בתנ״ך : 13:45-15:30 13:45-15:30 13:45-15:30 כולל זמן בחברותא כולל זמן בחברותא כולל זמן בחברותא

הרב אליעזר שנקולבסקי- רבקה בש - הרב אביה הכהן - ״יחד שבטי ישראל - ״ערי מקלט״ "סיפורה האמיתי של האם בסוף ספר בראשית זה מלחמת האזרחים מובן מאליו שכל בניו של יעקב הישראלית - פלגש בגבעה - ימשיכו את השושלת ויהפכו מי הרעים ומי הטובים?” ל12 השבטים?! איך עובדה זו משפיע על לעילוי נשמת צבי הירש ב"ר פרשנות סיפור יוסף ואחיו? ישעיהו סלנט

19:15 Closing Program 19:30 19:00 with Light Refreshments: Eicha Sounds of Music נשים אבל וזיכרון - Rabbanit Shani Taragin Twelve Tribes and the Tripartite Division of ערב לימוד בימי "בין המצרים” The Contrasting Month of Land במלאת עשרים שנה לפטירתה Av A brief shiur with של צפורה ברודי ז"ל - Margolin Rabbanit Shani Taragin. Halickman

Book Launch of Followed by Rabbanit Parsha Points: More Taragin in conversation Torah from the Land of with Tamar Weissman on: Israel Shevatim Then and Books will be available for Now: Writing on the sale (65 nis) Shevatim, Bayamim Ha’hem Bazman HaZeh

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