“Morality and Majority: Two Unique Views of Torah Sh’baal Peh, HaRav Shlomo Fisher, Rosh Yeshivat Itri and Harav Shmuel Glasner (The Dor Revii), the Rabbi of Klausenberg at the Turn of the
“Looking Forward to Elul” Audio Text
“A Case of Cremation – a T’shuva by Rabbi Yechiel Weinberg” Audio (audio cuts off 3 minutes of Q&A) Hebrew Text English Text
“What is the Experience of Prayer on Shabbat”
Audio Text
Can You Do a Little Transgression For Me?
Conversions and Courts: Do You Need Someone Else to Convert to Judaism?
Halakha and Human Goodness: Three Maimonidean Explorations Audio Text
Torah Lishma with Rabbi Yona Reiss (bio)
Rav Ovadia Yosef’s teshuva permitting the remarriage of agunot following the 9/11 World Trade Center Tragedy: Audio Text
ws310157.mp3 – Texts here, and here (English)
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Amy-Jill Levine, a self-described “Yankee Jewish feminist who teaches in a predominantly Christian divinity school in the buckle of the Bible Belt,” is University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies, and Professor of Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University Divinity School and College of Arts and Sciences. Among her many works is Marc Brettler and Amy-Jill Levine (eds.), Jewish Annotated New Testament (JANT), Study Bible; New York: Oxford University Press (2011).
Torah Lishmah with Dr. Rachel Adler, October 18, 2011
Dr. Rachel Adler is Professor of Modern Jewish Thought and Judaism and Gender at Hebrew Union College-Los Angeles. She was one of the first theologians to integrate feminist perspectives and concerns into the interpretation of Jewish texts and the renewal of Jewish law and ethics. She is the author of Engendering Judaism (1999) which won the National Jewish Book Award for Jewish Thought.
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Rabbi Leibowitz is a well known educator and teacher who has taught at Pardes. It is strongly recommended to have the book of Jonah while listening to the recording.
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Rabbi Michael Balinsky, “Kedushah and Kaddish in the Thought of Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik”
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Maimonides on the Laws of Mourning – WS310103.mp3
(Please note: It will help to have the text of Maimonides Laws of Mourning available as you listen in order to follow along)
Professor David Shyovitz – WS310095.mp3
Rabbi Michael Balinsky – WS310086.mp3
Rabbi Michael Balinsky – WS310083.mp3, text here
Professors David Kraemer and Mark Washofsky, Sponsored by the Center for Judaic law and Jewish Studies, Depaul University College of Law – ws310068.mp3
Rabbi Shai Held’s “The Religion of Abraham and the Religion of Moses: Between Philosophy and Halakha”
In this session, we explored two models Maimonides sets up for the religious life– Abraham the philosopher, and Moshe the legislator. We saw how each approach tries to inculcate faith in God, and how each, in turn, seeks to combat the human temptation to idolatry. Finally, we asked whether and how the two are reconcilable– or even mutually reinforcing.
Rabbi Shai Held is co-founder and Rosh Yeshiva at Mechon Hadar and chair in Jewish Thought.
Professor David Stern’s “The Akedah and the History of Jewish Reading”
David Stern is Moritz and Josephine Berg Professor of Classical Hebrew Literature at the University of Pennsylvania where he served for many years as Director of the Jewish Studies Program at Penn. Educated at Columbia College (B.A. 1972) and Harvard University (Ph.D. 1980), Stern was a Junior Fellow in Harvard’s Society of Fellows, and has taught at Princeton University, The University of Judaism in Los Angeles, the Hebrew University, and the University of Washington. He has received awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, and the American Philosophical Society. He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Jewish Research where he serves on its Executive Board.
Daniel Matt’s Torah Lishmah on texts of the Zohar – WS310029.mp3
For copies of the text, please contact CBR .
Tova Hartman’s Torah Lishmah.
Please first study the Oven of Achnai story in Baba Mezia 59B until the next Mishnah. The recording begins with the story of the herem of Rabbi Eliezer, but also includes a review of her initial points.
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Professor Paul Mendes-Flohr, for the JUF Rabbinic Mission, 3rd Session, November 28, 2011
“German Jewry as a Mirror of the Modern Jewish Experience” – WS310139.mp3
“Jewish Life in Medieval Ashkenaz: Jews, Christians, and the Problem of ‘Influence'” – WS310128.mp3
“Jewish Life in Medieval Ashkenaz: Origins, Communities, and the Problem of Sources” – WS310124.mp3
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