Congregational Read
Tue, Feb 25
|Temple Emanuel
Join us at Temple Emanuel for a discussion of the book: The Amen Effect, by Rabbi Sharon Brous at 7:00pm on Tuesday, February 25. Continue reading below for more about the book.


Time & Location
Feb 25, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Temple Emanuel, 1129 Jefferson Rd, Greensboro, NC 27410, USA
Guests
About the event
About The Amen Effect
From one of our country’s most prominent rabbis, an inspiring book about the power of community based on one of her most impactful sermons.
In a time of loneliness and isolation, social rupture and alienation, what will it take to mend our broken hearts and rebuild our society?
Sharon Brous — a leading American rabbi — makes the case that the spiritual work of our time, as instinctual as it is counter-cultural, is to find our way to one other in celebration, in sorrow, and in solidarity. To show up for each other in moments of joy and pain, vulnerability and possibility, to invest in relationships of shared purpose and build communities of care.
Brous contends that it is through honoring our most basic human instinct – the yearning for real connection – that we reawaken our shared humanity and begin to heal. This kind of sacred…

