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Mike Comins
TorahTrek
Telephone: 818-883-6213
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Mike is the founder of TorahTrek Spiritual Wilderness Adventures and the author of “ A Wild Faith: Jewish Ways into Wilderness, Wilderness Ways into Judaism” (Jewish Lights Publishing). A licensed Israeli desert guide, Mike studied classical Jewish texts for four years at the Pardes Institute. He was the first resident rabbi of Jackson Hole, WY.
The Difficulty of Davening:
Strategies for Making it Easier to Pray (or at Least to Make it Better)
Ritual and Prayer
- Saturday 8:00PM–9:15PM Catalina 2
For this panel discussion, we've invited four quite different daveners (pray-ers) to talk about the history and evolution of their relationship to prayer. Join us for a frank discussion about attitudes toward prayer and why it means something different to each person.
Justice, Suffering and Nature:
The Desert of Job
Text & Thought
- Sunday 1:00PM–2:15PM Laguna Beach 2
In a pagan world, Judaism insists that God is just and that all creation is an expression of God's will. So why do bad things happen to good people? God answers Job out of the whirlwind by giving him a desert tour. With Job, we study nature as a model for understanding the randomness of human suffering in a Divine world.
The Voice of Fragile Silence:
The Desert of Elija
Text & Thought
- Sunday 4:00PM–5:15PM Laguna Beach 2
Does it make a difference if we read Torah in the place where the events occurred? Study the famous journey of Elijah to Sinai and experience of walking the Sinai and Negev deserts through the texts.
