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Preparing for the High Holidays – Sukkot
Wednesday, September 30, 2020 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Understanding our Sephardic Laws and Traditions with Hakham Rabbi Elie Abadie, MD
Rabbi Elie Abadie, M.D., comes from a long and distinguished rabbinical lineage dating back to fifteenth century Spain and Provence. Born in Beirut, Lebanon, he grew-up in Mexico City before settling in the United States. Following in the footsteps of the great Jewish scholar and philosopher Moses Maimonides (the Rambam), he is both a rabbi and a physician. Rabbi Dr. Abadie maintains a practice in Gastroenterology and is fluent in English, Spanish, Hebrew, Arabic, French, as well as conversant in Italian and Portuguese. He serves on the Boards of the American Sephardi Federation and Beit Hatfutsot, as the Director of the Jacob E. Safra Institute of Sephardic Studies at Yeshiva University, Head of School of the Sephardic Academy of Manhattan, and Founder and Leader of the Manhattan East Synagogue – Congregation Shaare Mizrah.
Ticket Info: Free; register at zoom.us/meeting/register/tZckfuqrrD4tG9eWomnzGtZx-BhjLFCIXRTJ?mc_cid=af557d827d&mc_eid=a9a90f049b to receive a Zoom link