May 2-3, 2025

Annual Prostic Scholar-in-Residence Weekend
in memory of Albert Prostic obm

Dr. Gabriel Wasserman, Scholar-in-Residence

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PROGRAM SCHEDULE

Friday Night, May 2

7:00 pm: Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat/Maariv

7:30 pm: Shabbat dinner (registration required - Click here!)
Friday night discussion: Piyyutin: The Poetry of Prayer

Saturday, May 3

9:30 am: Shacharit
Shabbat Drasha: Haftorah: The Prophetic Reading in Prayer

12:00 pm: Shabbat Lunch & Learn (free, but registration is requested - Click here!)
Lunch on Saturday is free of charge,
but your donations and sponsorships will help support our work,
and they are greatly appreciated. 

Lunch & Learn: Chazanut: The Performance of Prayer

1:40 pm: Mincha

Dr. Gabriel Wasserman is a scholar of piyyut, Jewish liturgical poetry, committed not only to the philology of working on a technical level with manuscripts and writing Hebrew commentaries on the texts, but also to bringing them off the page as dramatic prayer. As philologist, he wrote his PhD dissertation, Liturgical Poems of Ḥanukka from Europe: Critical Edition and Investigations, at Yeshiva University, and his post-doctoral work, Liturgical Poems for Wedding Sabbaths and Circumcision Sabbaths, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; the latter work, which is the continuation of work left by the late Prof. Jonah Fraenkel at his death, was published as a book just a few weeks ago, in March 2025.