Heller Nature Center

8:00 PM

Ecclesiastes: The First Humanistic Jew BCE?

“I realized that the only worthwhile thing there is for them is to enjoy themselves and do what is good in their lifetime . . . sometimes a good man perishes in spite of his goodness, and sometimes a wicked one endures in spite of his wickedness.” The words of a modern heretic? No, they come from the biblical Book of Ecclesiastes, an early root of Humanistic Judaism and traditionally read during Sukkot.