וְלֹא-דִבֶּר יְהוָה לִמְחוֹת אֶת-שֵׁם יִשְׂרָאֵל /v’lo-diber adonai limhhot et-shem yisrael. Word for word, that works out to this: and not – he spoke the Lord to erase name of Israel.This spoke (no pun intended) to me in a very powerful way.
In this immersion, we will reflect and expand on our personal experiences of identity, using writing exercises and in-depth discussions to think about, challenge, discover, explore, and experiment with different ways to identify ourselves, to consider how those ways connect us to and separate us from others, and how they represent and misrepresent aspects of who we are.