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During the season of reflection and renewal, we joined Dr. Guila Benchimol and Rabba Yaffa Epstein for an interactive learning session on Thursday, September 18 grounded in the newly created Torah of SRE sourcesheet.
Together, we explored the values at the heart of SRE’s work – justice, equity, humility, and loving-kindness and asked:
- Who do we want to become in the year ahead, guided by our values and morals?
- What resolutions emerge when we align ourselves with these values?
- How can we move from theory to practice as we embody these values in our daily lives?
About the Torah of SRE
The “Torah of SRE” is a sourcesheet created in 2025 by Dr. Guila Benchimol (SRE Network) and Rabba Yaffa Epstein (Jewish Education Project) to help our community use Jewish texts to imagine what it could look like if we treated each other according to the values of safety, respect, equity, justice, kindness, and humility.
The sourcesheet is framed around the central text, Micah 6:8:
"You have been told, Human Being, what is good, and what GOD requires of you:
Only to do justice,
And to love kindness,
And to walk humbly with your God."
- View and download the Torah of SRE
- Watch the session recording
- Read a thought piece about how the Torah of SRE can inspire organizational reflection
Note: There is no expectation that you will have read through this sourcesheet in advance of the learning session.
About the Educators
Dr. Guila Benchimol
Dr. Guila Benchimol (she/her/hers) is the Senior Advisor on Research and Learning with SRE Network and was one of the key advisors who guided its launch in early 2018. As a researcher and public educator on sexual violence, she has crafted standards and policies for Jewish workplaces, institutions, and communal spaces and has been invited to address Jewish professionals and clergy across Canada and the US, as well as other faith communities. Guila is also trained in restorative and transformative justice facilitation.
Guila holds a PhD in Sociological Criminology and an MA in Criminology and Criminal Justice Policy from the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada.
Rabba Yaffa Epstein
Rabba Yaffa Epstein (she/her) is the Senior Scholar and Educator in Residence at The Jewish Education Project. Formerly, she served as the Director of the Wexner Heritage Program at the Wexner Foundation. Epstein has also served as the Director of Education, North America for the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies and was a member of the faculty. She has served on the faculties of Yeshivat Maharat and the Drisha Institute. Epstein has served as an Educator and Scholar in Residence for the Dorot Fellowship, Moishe House, Jewish Federation of North America, the Covenant Foundation, the Nahum Goldmann Fellowship, Repair the World, and JPro.
She received Orthodox Rabbinic Ordination from Yeshivat Maharat, earned an additional private Orthodox Ordination from Rabbi Daniel Landes, holds a Law Degree from Bar-Ilan University, and studied at the Talmud Department at Hebrew University.
For questions, email info@srenetwork.org.