No knowledge of Talmud or Hebrew is necessary to enjoy the lively back and forth discussion. "Just be ready to air your own opinion on an ethical question that has been debated by Talmudic scholars in the past," says Roma Sohn, a TI organizer of the ongoing debate series. "No opinion is right or wrong and every opinion has its merits and adds to a lively discussion."

Further details are available by contacting Roma at 301-598-3894 or romarvin@comcast.net.

Rabbi Lipsky came to Olney, Md., in 2003 to help establish a Kollel for the area. He was born in Cincinnati, where he attended public schools.

His curiosity to learn more about Judaism led him to yeshiva study, first at the Ner Israel Rabbinical College in Baltimore and later in Israel. There he studied under one of the foremost Jewish ethical philosophers. That experience resulted in a commitment to both lifelong spiritual growth and to help make Torah more accessible to fellow Jews.

Rabbi Lipsky spent 12 years in Chicago, where he served as pulpit rabbi and taught in various Jewish schools. In 1998, he moved to Houston to establish TORCH, an acronym that stands for the Torah and Outreach Resource Center of Houston. After five years of building that reality, family considerations brought the rabbi and his wife back to the Northeast.

The Rabbi Samuel and Zehava Friedman Kollel is an independent, non-profit institution whose purpose is to provide an exceptional Jewish learning experience to Jewish men and women of all backgrounds and affiliations.

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