Marianne Novak introduces masekhet Avot, drawing out its central themes of responsibility, autonomy, and the virtue of striving for moral perfection - regardless of whether perfection is achieved.
Marianne Novak is a third year off site student at Yeshivat Maharat and a Rabbinic Intern at Hebrew Institute of Riverdale. She lives in Skokie, Illinois with her family where she has been teaching for the past 19 years for the Florence Melton School of Adult Jewish Education and is a Gabbait for the Skokie Women’s Tefillah Group. She has also taught Tanach at Rochelle Zella Chicago and Jewish High School. She has a BA in Political Science from Barnard and a JD from Washington University School of Law in St. Louis.