Rabbi Dr. Erin Leib Smokler
Dean of Students and Mashgicha Ruchanit / Advanced Kollel: Executive Ordination, Class of 2018
Rabbi Dr. Erin Leib Smokler is the Dean of Students and Mashgicha Ruchanit at Yeshivat Maharat, where she teaches Chassidut and Pastoral Torah. She is also a faculty fellow of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. She received semikha from Yeshivat Maharat, earned her PhD and MA from the University of Chicago's Committee on Social Thought and her AB from Harvard University. Rabbi Dr. Leib Smokler previously served as Assistant Literary Editor of The New Republic magazine, and her writing has appeared there, as well as in The New York Times Book Review, The Jerusalem Report, and The Jewish Week.
To contact Rabbi Dr. Erin Leib Smokler: eleibsmokler@yeshivatmaharat.org
Publications and Media
Title | Type | Category | Topic | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Power Hour of Torah: The Shavuot Edition | Multimedia; Dvar Torah | Video Divrei Torah; Panels and Discussions; Holiday | Shavuot | May 12, 2021 |
Breastfeeding Series Session 1 - Electric Pumps & Shabbat | Multimedia | Panels and Discussions | February 1, 2021 | |
Intimacy in the Void: On the Keruvim and Shir HaShirim" | Dvar Torah | Shemot | Terumah | 2016/5776 |
Simeni Kachotem al Libecha: On Carrying a People | Dvar Torah | Shemot | Tetzaveh | 2016/5776 |
On Seeing and Not Seeing God | Dvar Torah | Shemot | Ki Tissa | 2016/5776 |
On Generosity, Love and Being Loved | Dvar Torah | Shemot | Vayekhel | 2016/5776 |
Inviting God into God's House | Dvar Torah | Shemot | Pekudei | 2016/5776 |
From Outside to Inside: Invitations to Unity | Dvar Torah | Vayikra | Vayikra | 2016/5776 |
Retaining the Remnants | Dvar Torah | Vayikra | Tzav | 2016/5776 |
Difficult Silence | Dvar Torah | Vayikra | Shemini | 2016/5776 |
Imagining the Unknown | Dvar Torah | Vayikra | Tazria | 2016/5776 |
On Waiting and Not Understanding | Dvar Torah | Vayikra | Metzora | 2016/5776 |
To Life! | Dvar Torah | Vayikra | Acharei Mot | 2016/5776 |
On the Holiness of Boundaries and the Sanctity of Community | Dvar Torah | Vayikra | Kedoshim | 2016/5776 |
The Importance of Imperfection | Dvar Torah | Vayikra | Emor | 2016/5776 |
God as Ger: Finding Alignment through Alienation | Dvar Torah | Vayikra | Behar | 2016/5776 |
Unbuilding and Upbuilding in the Wilderness | Dvar Torah | Bamidbar | Bamidbar | 2016/5776 |
Ambivalent Asceticism | Dvar Torah | Bamidbar | Naso | 2016/5776 |
On Gatherings, Good and Bad | Dvar Torah | Bamidbar | Beha'alotekha | 2016/5776 |
Holy Chutzpah | Dvar Torah | Bamidbar | Shelach | 2016/5776 |
Contemplating Kedusha | Dvar Torah | Bamidbar | Korach | 2016/5776 |
The Staff of Supernaturalism | Dvar Torah | Bamidbar | Chukat | 2016/5776 |
At the Violet Hour | Dvar Torah | Bamidbar | Balak | 2017/5777 |
In the Shadow of Trauma | Dvar Torah | Bamidbar | Pinchas | 2016/5776 |
Journeys Redeemed and Unredeemed | Dvar Torah | Bamidbar | Mattot; Mase'i | 2016/5776 |
On the Use, Disuse, and Misuse of Language | Dvar Torah | Devarim | Devarim | 2016/5776 |
Intimacy without Expectations: Cultivating a Sober Spirituality | Dvar Torah | Devarim | Va'etchanan | 2016/5776 |
Luchot v’Shivrei Luchot: On Whole and Broken Pieces | Dvar Torah | Devarim | Ekev | 2016/5776 |
On Seeing Good and Seeing God | Dvar Torah | Devarim | Re'eh | 2016/5776 |
Facing the Challal | Dvar Torah | Devarim | Shoftim | 2016/5776 |
On Returning the Lost | Dvar Torah | Devarim | Ki Tetze | 2016/5776 |
Acquiring a Heart That Knows | Dvar Torah | Devarim | Ki Tavo | 2016/5776 |
Human Repentance and Godly Return | Dvar Torah | Devarim | Nitzavim | 2016/5776 |
On Hiding and Seeking | Dvar Torah | Devarim | Vayelech | 2016/5777 |
The Sacred Gap | Dvar Torah | Devarim | Haazinu | 2016/5777 |
On Writing and Dying with Tears | Dvar Torah | Devarim | V'zot Habracha | 2016/5777 |
Light in Dark Times | Dvar Torah | Holiday | Chanukah | 2016/5777 |
4 Sons, 4 Rabbis, 4 Paradigms | Dvar Torah | Holiday | Pesach | 2017/5777 |
The Geulah of Gerut: Pesach as Transformation | Dvar Torah | Holiday | Pesach | 2016/5776 |
On Closeness Without Convergence | Dvar Torah | Shemot | Yitro | 2017/5777 |
Starting Over Again with God | Dvar Torah | Bereishit | Bereishit | 2016/5777 |
Walking Before G-d | Dvar Torah | Bereishit | Noach | 2015/5776 |
On Second Naiveté | Dvar Torah | Bereishit | Lech Lecha | 2015/5776 |
Vayer et Hamakom Me'rachok", Seeing a Distant God | Dvar Torah | Bereishit | Vayera | 2015/5776 |
The Price of Piety | Dvar Torah | Bereishit | Chayei Sarah | 2015/5776 |
The Blessing of Insufficiency | Dvar Torah | Bereishit | Toldot | 2015/5776 |
The Epiphany of Prayer | Dvar Torah | Bereishit | Vayeitzei | 2015/5776 |
Dancing Toward Dawn | Dvar Torah | Bereishit | Vayishlach | 2015/5776 |
On Seeking Serenity | Dvar Torah | Bereishit | Vayeshev | 2015/5776 |
Dreaming in the Dark: Miketz and the Menorah | Dvar Torah | Bereishit | Miketz | 2015/5776 |
On Crying and Catharsis | Dvar Torah | Bereishit | Vayigash | 2015/5776 |
Entering Fog | Dvar Torah | Shemot | Bo | 2016/5776 |
Rabbi Dr. Erin Leib Smokler - 2018 Yeshivat Maharat Semikha Ceremony | Multimedia | Graduations | Sixth Semikha Ceremony | June 18, 2018 |
From Alienation to Integration: Learning to Live | Dvar Torah | Bereishit | Vayechi | 2015/5776 |
The God of Need, The God of Now | Dvar Torah | Shemot | Shemot | 2016/5776 |
Pious Impiety | Dvar Torah | Shemot | Va'era | 2016/5776 |
Ze Eli V'Anvehu: Pointing to a Personal God | Dvar Torah | Shemot | B'Shalach | 2016/5776 |
Chanukah from Every Angle - A Webinar with Maharat Faculty | Multimedia; Dvar Torah | Video Divrei Torah; Panels and Discussions; Holiday; Chassidut | Chanukah | 2019/5780 |
In the News
Title | Publication | Published |
|---|---|---|
"In the Spotlight" - Episode 4 - "The Women of Maharat" | Jewish Broadcasting Service | March 8, 2022 |
Rabbi Dr. Erin Leib Smokler, Maharat Faculty | Maharat | December 2, 2019 |