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Join our team for Mishnah Bechorot every Sunday! This course is a presentation of the Rifka Rosenwein Z”L Mishnah Division. And join Drisha’s Mishna Yomit community! Working with the most standard daily mishnah study schedule, you will join a group of committed learners who dedicate time each day for the study of 1-2 mishnayot. Over a period of weeks and months of regular study, you will complete Tractates and even entire Orders of Mishnah!

To anchor and support your individual learning,  Drisha’s Mishnah Yomit program includes a weekly Mishnah Yomit b’Iyun (in-depth) shiur. In this shiur, you will have the opportunity to review portions of the past week’s material, and to go deep into select elements of the text (e.g. core concepts discussed; how the mishnayot interpret and interact with the biblical background; the literary structure and reception history of the unit) — all within the context of a collaborative community of fellow learners.

This installment of Mishnah In-Depth will be prerecorded. Register to receive a video each Sunday for the 4 weeks of class.

In his teachings on Chanukkah, and for the weeks of parshiyot Vayeshev and Miketz, the Sefat Emet deals with deep meanings within the days of Chanukkah, and opens a door to profound understandings in serving God throughout the entire year. Together, we will look at the path he has laid out for us, a path that will lead us into winter and help us take the lights of the holiday with us, further and beyond.

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This 3-part course will look at three select narratives from Genesis and the work of an understudied parshan, Malbim. We will develop our Hebrew skills and exegetical skills as we navigate what Malbim’s guiding principles are and how these are borne out in his interpretations.

All psak depends in the intersection of theoretical law and reality. As poskim are not trained as doctors, programmers, lawyers, businessmen, farmers, etc, they need to integrate information from outside experts, or develop personal expertise. As the world changes, this is even more complicated. The question of how poskim do this is of critical importance. For example, when faced with a simple question of whether one is sick enough to eat on Yom Kippur, does the posek consult his or her own doctors, or trust the patient to find a doctor, or assess the situation his or herself? What about in political questions? Does the fact that both the laity and poskim can access information with AI and information technology change the equation? I draw on insights from Eric Topol and Martin Gurri as how this dynamic plays out in medicine and in general for insight.

Does Jewish tradition recognize an ethic independent of halakha? For R. Isaac Hutner, a leading mid-20th century rosh yeshiva, the question is a poorly formed one. The proper question is not whether, as faithful halakhic Jews, we are bound by moral obligations – obviously we are. And it is not the question of what the relationship between religion and morality is. The real question, rather, is what the relationship should be, how we ought to interweave our moral and religious aspirations. This course will explore R. Hutner’s ambitious moral-religious philosophy through a close reading of selections from his magnum opus, Pahad Yitzhak.