When is Essence Unavoidable? (Fall Lecture Series 2017)
Ethan Tucker. Fall Lecture Series, Part 4: In week four, we will look at rabbinic texts that divide between Jews and Gentiles of all sorts, including ...
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When Gentiles are Like Jews (Fall Lecture Series 2017)
Ethan Tucker. Fall Lecture Series, Part 3: In week three, we will survey rabbinic texts that emphasize times and places where the Gentile/Jewish bound...
From Stranger to Convert: Turning a Biblical Outsider into a Rabbinic Insider (Fall Lecture Series 2017)
Ethan Tucker. Fall Lecture Series, Part 2: Having seen the Biblical material in depth, we will now look at how Rabbinic sources attempt to resolve inc...
In or Out? Biblical Definitions of the Ger (Fall Lecture Series 2017)
Ethan Tucker. Fall Lecture Series, Part 1: In this session we will look at the biblical category of the ger—often defined as the stranger or resident ...
Praying on the Margins: Prayers of Protest
Aviva Richman explores midrashim on Hannah and prayer as invitations to speak up to power. Recorded at the 2017 Executive Seminar.
The Cry of the Covenant (Community Beit Midrash)
Yaffa Epstein of Pardes. The first time the Shofar is mentioned in the Torah is in connection with the giving of the Torah. But - what is the connecti...
Vidui: Self-Transformation through Honesty (Community Beit Midrash)
Eliezer Diamond of JTS. Vidui is an essential - according to Rambam, the essential - element of the teshuvah process. We will examine its transformati...
Pondering Liminality (Community Beit Midrash)
Erin Leib Smokler of Yeshivat Maharat. The season of the High Holidays contains both climactic moments (Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur) and in-between ti...
The Prayers of Yom Kippur (Community Beit Midrash)
David Silber of Drisha. Rav Nachman of Breslov famously said that the goal of Torah study is to transform our study into prayer. The ancient liturgica...