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

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

 

Dates

December 12, 2022 December 19, 2022

Time

Mondays 1:30 PM EST

Topics

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

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

Rav Kook on "Can Maccabees and Hellenists Get Along?" (Part 1) - Sports: Not Just for the Greeks"- Rav Kook on Why the Ideal Jew is Physically Fit

Rabbi Ari Chwat-Shvat

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

Rav Kook on "Can Maccabees and Hellenists Get Along?" (Part 1)

December 12, 2022

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

Watch Rav Kook on "Can Maccabees and Hellenists Get Along?" (Part 1) || Rabbi Ari (Chwat) Shvat on YouTube.

Source Material

December 12 (PDF)

December 19 (PDF)

Meet the speaker

Rabbi Ari Chwat-Shvat

Rav Ari (Chwat) Shvat is director of Rav Kook’s archives in Beit HaRav, and is considered a world authority on his writings and philosophy. He served for several decades among the heads of the Israeli and overseas one-year seminary programs for young women at the Michlelet Orot Israel College and other programs for higher education. Raised in Riverdale, New York, he did the Hesder Program at the Ohr Etzion and Kiryat Arba yeshivot, where he received smicha and served as…

Rabbi Ari Chwat-Shvat bio & resources