Ger Toshav: Next Steps
     Rabbi Daniel Siegel

This workshop will pick up where we left off last year, with the the following assumptions:
1. Ger toshav is a meaningful term to describe non-Jewish participants in Jewish life.
2.  This workshop and project is focused only on diaspora Jewish life, and in particular North American. Ger Toshav for Israel is being worked on by others.
3. In preparation for this workshop, please read both parts of the Ger Toshav project which is available from the ALEPH ReSources Catalog at alephcanada.ca. The second part should be available on or before US Thanksgiving.

​The content of the workshop will address two things: 
                (1) What defines or describes a ger toshav; and 
                (2) how might we ritualize a welcome.

Daniel Siegel was the Rabbinic Director of ALEPH from 1997-2004, and serves as Rabbinic Director of ALEPH Canada and founding director of the Integral Halachah Institute. He received semicha twice from Reb Zalman, is a father and grandfather and currently lives on Hornby Island, British Columbia.