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Exploring Rabbi Sacks on the Universal and the Particular
Dr. Samuel LebensJuly 26, 2021 / 1 Audio Lecture
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The Early Development of Jewish Universalism: From the Bible to the Rabbinic Period
Dr. Malka Z. SimkovichJuly 26, 2021 / 1 Audio Lecture
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Does God Want Other Nations to Keep the Torah? An Aggadic History.
Rabba Wendy AmsellemJuly 1, 2021 / 1 Audio Lecture
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Suffering and Prosperity: A Jewish Philosophical Exploration
Dr. Aaron SegalApril 16, 2021 / 4 Audio Lectures
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Death and Afterlife in the Rabbinic and Kabbalistic Imagination
Dr. Nathaniel Berman, Rabbi David SilberApril 12, 2021 / 4 Audio Lectures
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Quandaries of Quarantine in Biblical, Talmudic and Hasidic Literature
Rabbanit Leah SarnaApril 12, 2021 / 4 Audio Lectures
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Rabbinic Authority and Personal Autonomy in Early Rabbinic Law: Three Case Studies
Dr. Ayelet Hoffmann LibsonFebruary 4, 2021 / 3 Audio Lectures
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Scarcity & Plenty: Food Policy and Distribution in Halakhah and in America
Rabbanit Leah SarnaJanuary 4, 2021 / 4 Audio Lectures
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Virtual Reality and Genuine Humanity – Can They Coexist?
Rabbi Dr. Shlomo ZuckierDecember 7, 2020 / 3 Audio Lectures
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Caring for Others, the Torah, and Ourselves: Jewish Perspectives on the Ethics of Care
Sarah ZagerDecember 6, 2020 / 3 Audio Lectures
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What Can We Learn About God from the Image of God in Us?
Dr. Samuel LebensDecember 6, 2020 / 3 Audio Lectures
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Anger and Kabbalah: Confronting Divine and Human Rage in the Zohar
Dr. Nathaniel Berman, Rabbi David SilberDecember 2, 2020 / 4 Audio Lectures
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What Does the “Divine Image” Look Like? Perspectives from Chazal
Rabbi Dr. Shlomo ZuckierOctober 18, 2020 / 4 Video Lectures
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Abraham Joshua Heschel: Human Dignity as a Divine Concern
Dr. Dror BondiOctober 15, 2020 / 6 Audio Lectures
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Ritual Re-enactments: Becoming Moshe, a Mother, and a High Priest in the Yamim Noraim Tefillah
Rabbanit Leah SarnaSeptember 8, 2020 / 2 Video Lectures
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Can We Change Our Character? Perspectives from the Bavli to the Musar Movement
Sarah ZagerAugust 25, 2020 / 3 Video Lectures
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The Emotions of Repentance: Rav Soloveitchik, Rav Kook and the Lubavitcher Rebbe
Rabbi Dr. Yosef BronsteinAugust 24, 2020 / 4 Video Lectures
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God Who Suffers With: Divine Presence Amidst Pain
Rabbi Julia Watts BelserAugust 19, 2020 / 1 Video Lecture
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Talmudic Astrology: Is Israel’s Fate Determined by the Stars?
Rabbi Dr. Jeffrey RubensteinAugust 11, 2020 / 1 Video Lecture
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On Suffering and Metaphors: Limits and Opportunities
Dr. Tammy JacobowitzAugust 10, 2020 / 1 Video Lecture
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The Impossibility of Mourning: Zoharic Thoughts on the Interminability of Tisha b’Av
Dr. Nathaniel BermanAugust 7, 2020 / 1 Video Lecture
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Philosophical Scissors in the Hands of the Rabbis
Dr. Samuel LebensJuly 29, 2020 / 1 Video Lecture
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“The Pain of Raising Children” Using Care Ethics to Understand Jewish Leadership
Sarah ZagerJuly 16, 2020 / 1 Video Lecture
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COVID and Messianism: Does the Pandemic Mean Mashiach is Near?
Rabbi Dr. Shlomo ZuckierJune 16, 2020 / 1 Video Lecture
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Coronavirus Theodicy – What is God’s Role and How Should We Respond?
Rabbi Dr. Shlomo ZuckierJune 9, 2020 / 1 Video Lecture
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Reopen the Shuls? When Valuing Human Life and Religious Expression Conflict
Rabbi Dr. Shlomo ZuckierJune 3, 2020 / 1 Video Lecture
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Halakhic Responses to Coronavirus: Should I Have a Zoom Seder?
Rabbi Dr. Shlomo ZuckierApril 22, 2020 / 1 Video Lecture
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The World in a Classroom: Teaching and Learning With Moral Urgency – Ilana Blumberg in Conversation with Devora Steinmetz
Dr. Devora SteinmetzJanuary 24, 2020 / 1 Audio Lecture
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Ve-Asita ha-Yashar ve-HaTov: Halakha and Ethics in the Talmud and Today
Rabbi Dr. Shlomo ZuckierJanuary 3, 2020 / 1 Audio Lecture
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Water Wears Away Stone: How Halakhah Shapes Us as Ethical Agents
Sarah ZagerJanuary 2, 2020 / 2 Audio Lectures
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Is it Wrong to be Ethical? Ethics, Halakhah, and Philosophy of Law
Daniel RynholdJanuary 1, 2020 / 2 Audio Lectures
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Biblical Criticism
Rabbi Daniel ReifmanSeptember 6, 2019 / 2 Audio Lectures
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“Let us Create Man” Depictions of the Human and the Divine in the Creation Stories
Dr. Orit AvneryAugust 5, 2019 / 1 Audio Lecture
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“In the Beginning” Was There a Day Without a Yesterday?
Dr. Samuel LebensJuly 25, 2019 / 1 Audio Lecture
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Be Fruitful and Multiply R. Moshe Feinstein’s Innovative Approach to the Mitzvah of P’ru u-Revu
Dr. Shana Strauch SchickJune 28, 2019 / 1 Audio Lecture
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Divine Contractions: A New Perspective on the Kabbalistic Notion of Tzimtzum
Dr. Samuel LebensAugust 8, 2018 / 1 Audio Lecture
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The Disappearance of God in Tanakh: A Question or an Answer?
Dr. Aaron KollerAugust 8, 2018 / 1 Audio Lecture
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Dirshu Et Shalom HaIr Asher Hegleti Etchem Shama: On American Jews and American Citizenship
Rivka SchwartzNovember 14, 2017 / 1 Video Lecture
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Jewish and American Ethos During Tumultuous Times: Complementary and Conflicting Visions of Human Dignity and Worth
Bernard SteinbergNovember 14, 2017 / 1 Video Lecture
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Love in the High Holy Days
Elana Stein Hain, Dr. Aaron KollerSeptember 28, 2017 / 1 Video Lecture
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Separation of Church and State in the Jewish, Islamic, and American Traditions
Shlomo PillJune 16, 2017 / 1 Audio Lecture
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Values Lived: Tzeniut in Our Personal and Communal Spheres
Rabbi David SilberNovember 15, 2016 / 1 Audio Lecture
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Walking Humbly: Personal Decisions
Drisha Faculty, Shira Hecht-Koller, Rabbi Jon KelsenNovember 8, 2016 / 1 Audio Lecture
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Colleagues and Warriors: Daily Life in the Beit Midrash
Rabba Wendy AmsellemFebruary 11, 2016 / 1 Audio Lecture
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Translating Cultures across Linguistic Divides: The Making of the Septuagint
Hindy NajmanDecember 23, 2015 / 1 Audio Lecture
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From Prophets to Sages: John Hyrcanus and a Heavenly Voice
Vered NoamDecember 22, 2015 / 1 Audio Lecture
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Brother Rival / Sister Enemy: Literary and Kabbalistic Readings of Intimate Antagonism in the Bible
Dr. Nathaniel Berman, Rabbi David SilberOctober 29, 2015 / 6 Audio Lectures
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Existential Issues in Torah and Talmud: Freedom, Meaning, Integrity, Isolation, Anxiety, Time, and Death
Tsvi BlanchardOctober 29, 2015 / 1 Audio Lecture
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The Place of Holiness in Contemporary Jewish Life
Rolando Matalon, Dr. Erin Leib SmoklerOctober 28, 2015 / 1 Audio Lecture
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Rediscovering Centers of Holiness and the Sacred
Tsvi BlanchardOctober 23, 2015 / 1 Video Lecture
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Silence and Speech in the Presence of Suffering
Raphael MagarikJuly 27, 2015 / 1 Audio Lecture
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Just as Our Faces are Different so are Our Ideas
Ilana Fodiman-SilvermanJuly 1, 2015 / 1 Audio Lecture
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Love Without Limits? The Dynamics and Problematics of Rav Kook’s Moral Discourse
Daniel LandesJune 24, 2015 / 1 Video Lecture
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Growth, Renewal, and Expansion: The Innovative and Inclusive World of Learning in Israel in 2015
Dani SegalMay 4, 2015 / 1 Audio Lecture
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Prayer and Human Needs: R. Soloveitchik and Other Recent Thinkers
David ShatzApril 2, 2014 / 1 Audio Lecture
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Dov Linzer: Global Day of Jewish Learning: Social Justice And Circles Of Responsibility
Dov LinzerNovember 17, 2013 / 1 Audio Lecture
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Aharon and the Golden Calf: Art and Responsibility
Rabba Wendy AmsellemNovember 13, 2013 / 1 Audio Lecture
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Yatzer haRah, My Creative and Collaborative Partner
Joe SeptimusNovember 5, 2013 / 1 Audio Lecture
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Jewish Theological Responses to the Holocaust
Yitz GreenbergDecember 25, 2012 / 1 Audio Lecture
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Responses to Suffering in the Book of Genesis
Rabbi David SilberNovember 29, 2012 / 1 Audio Lecture
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The Consumption Commandment- Poverty, Luxury, and Equality in Jewish Ritual
Rachel RosenthalNovember 8, 2012 / 1 Audio Lecture
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Grateful For and Grateful To: Some Philosophical Underpinnings of a Gratitude Infused Relationship
Joe SeptimusNovember 8, 2012 / 1 Audio Lecture
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Torah V’Avodah: Learning, Labor and the Hierarchy of Jewish Values
Dr. Devora SteinmetzNovember 6, 2012 / 1 Audio Lecture
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Wisdom and the Meaning of Life in Israel and the Ancient Near East
Dr. Aaron KollerDecember 27, 2011 / 2 Audio Lectures
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Where Was God: Theology, Religion, Halakha, and Community After the Holocaust
Jerome ChanesNovember 8, 2011 / 1 Audio Lecture
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Body and Soul in Jewish Thought and Practice: Intersection Overlap, or Conflict?
Dr. Tammy JacobowitzJuly 21, 2011 / 1 Audio Lecture
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Holy Feasts or Sacrifices to the Dead? The Meaning(s) of Jewish Eating
Dr. Devora SteinmetzJuly 12, 2011 / 3 Audio Lectures
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Representations of Rabbi Soloveitchik: Revision or Reality?
Jerome ChanesJanuary 30, 2008 / 1 Audio Lecture
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Should a Jew Look for the Reasons for Mitzvot
Martin LockshinDecember 20, 2006 / 1 Audio Lecture
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The Philosopher as Rabbi: Orthodox Reservations in Maimonides’ Subsequent Writings
Charles ManekinNovember 14, 2006 / 1 Audio Lecture
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The Rabbi as Philosopher: Philosophical Affirmations in Maimonides’ Early Writings
Charles ManekinNovember 7, 2006 / 1 Audio Lecture
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Beyond Good and Evil: Where Does Man Perceive God?
Rabbi Avie WalfishDecember 26, 2005 / 1 Audio Lecture
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And the Walls Came Tumbling Down: Earthquake History in the Holy Land
Amos NurNovember 28, 2005 / 1 Audio Lecture
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