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e-TiM: Rav Kook on "Can Maccabees and Hellenists Get Along?"

Dates

December 12, 2022 to December 19, 2022

Time

Mondays 1:30 PM Eastern

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Rav Kook on "Can Maccabees and Hellenists Get Along?"

Rabbi Ari Shvat

Mondays December 12 & 19

1:30pm Eastern, 8:30pm Israel

Rav Kook, one of the most innovative thinkers of the past century, is known for his approach of harmonizing the apparent opposites. The battle between the Maccabean and Greek cultures which we celebrate on Chanukah, provides an ideal set for dealing with Modernism & Orthodox Judaism and how to harmonize the best of both worlds, without apologetics.

December 12: Sports: Not Just for the Greeks"- Rav Kook on Why the Ideal Jew is Physically Fit

December 19: Rav Kook on: Adopting the Positive Without the Negative of Greek Culture

Topics:

History, Ancient History, Jewish History, Chanukah, Jewish thought

Meet the speaker

Rav Ari Shvat (Chwat)

Rav Ari has authored, co-authored & edited seven books: LeHarim Et HaDegel: The Israeli Flag and Hebrew Language in Judaic Sources; Haskamot HaReiya: Rav Kook's Letters of Approbation; Otzrot HaReiya: Unpublished Letters of Rav Kook; Igrot HaRe'iya תרצ"א- Rav Kook's letters- 1931; HaRe'iya BaParsha; The Annotated Version of Tz’va’at R. Yehuda HaChasid, and The Ministry of Education's Educational Guide on "The Jewish Family", and has published over 150 ideological and halachic articles in leading Torah journals, such as T'chumin, HaMa’ayan,…

Rav Ari Shvat (Chwat) bio & resources