About This Course
This course earns 0.5 synagogue engagement credits.
This practicum gives you the opportunity to receive credit for leading a portion of a High Holiday service while enrolled at PRS.
To earn 0.5 synagogue engagement credits, you must lead one element of a Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur service. Examples are Kol Nidre, Morning Service, Ne’ilah, or another substantive portion of the High Holiday experience.
Requirements
To receive credit, complete all of the following:
1. Lead a High Holiday service element while enrolled at PRS
The service element must be led during your time as a PRS student. Credit cannot be awarded for leadership completed before enrollment at PRS.
2. Complete the brit limmud
Ask your supervising rabbi or other community leader to complete and sign the brit limmud found on this course page.
The brit limmud should include:
- The supervising rabbi or leader’s name
- The name of the congregation, chavurah, or community
- The name of the service or service element led
- The machzor used
Submitting Your Work
Upload the following in the course’s verification section:
The completed and signed brit limmud
Meet Your Instructor
Rabbi Sandy Zisser is the Founder and Director of the Pluralistic Rabbinical Seminary. Additionally, he serves as the Director of Education at Temple Shaaray Tefila in Westchester County, NY. Rabbi Sandy received his smicha from the Jewish Spiritual Leaders Institute, his Master of Arts in Special Education from Bank Street College, and his Bachelor of Arts in American History and Judaic Studies from the State University of New York at Albany.
