First rabbi to visit Killester College
"For almost all the students it was the first time they ever met a rabbi and it was certainly the first time a rabbi ever visited their school."
Earlier this year, Rabbi Yaakov Glasman of St Kilda shule presented a lecture at the annual Interfaith Conference of VCE Teachers of Text and Traditions.
The conference took place at the Independent Schools Victoria Building in West Melbourne. The theme of the conference was “The compilation of sacred scripture” and focused on the origins, interpretation and application of sacred scriptures within the Judaic, Muslim and Christian traditions.
Following that talk, he was invited by one of the Text and Traditions teachers who heard him speak at the conference, to pay a visit to her school in Springvale and present a lecture to their VCE students.
Rabbi Glasman agreed to attend and earlier this month he went to Springvale to deliver a lecture to 120 year 11 students at the Killester College, all of whom are studying Text and Traditions as part of their VCE subjects.
His role as keynote speaker was to expand on the history of the key moments of the development of the Tanach, the acceptance
of the Tanach as holy scripture, and the characteristics of those texts and the ways that some sacred texts perform a function within their wider literary and religious context.
“St Kilda Shule receives approximately 500 schools annually across Victoria so this was a unique opportunity to reciprocate by travelling out to Springvale and present to a school over there,” Rabbi Glasman told The AJN.
He added, “The students were most attentive and I received excellent feedback from the teachers and the principal, which was very heartening.
“For almost all the students it was the first time they ever met a rabbi and it was certainly the first time a rabbi ever visited their school.”
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