e-TiM: Online Program
e-TiM: Renewing the Old, Sanctifying the New

Program details

Dates

September 8, 2025 to December 29, 2025

Time

Mondays 8:30 PM to 9:30 PM Eastern

Next class

Monday December 1, 2025

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In this series, Dr. Shapiro will discuss his new book, Renewing the Old, Sanctifying the New: The Unique Vision of Rav Kook (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2024), focusing on various themes in Rav Kook's writings that are not as familiar as his well-known advocacy of what came to be known as Religious Zionism. 

Class 1: Where is Rav Kook's Soul?
Class 2: Is Halakhah Always Essential?
Class 3: The Need for Broad Jewish Philosophical Knowledge and the Dangers of Limited Curriculum
Class 4: Torah, History, and Science
Class 5: The Problem of Heresy
Class 6: Natural Morality and the Jewish Masses
Class 7: Natural Morality, the Jewish Masses, and Halakhah
Class 8: Halakhic Change and Study of Kabbalah
Class 9: Study of Kabbalah and Other Religions

 

Dr. Shapiro's classes for the year 5786 are generously sponsored by:

Fran and Alan Broder
Shira and Yisroel Hochberg
Marilyn and Rabbi Dov Loketch 
Pessie and Asher Reimer 
Jacob and Joseph Sasson
Hyla and Yakov Yellin
Drs. Diane and David Zwillenberg
and the generous donors who requested anonymity 

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Meet the speaker

Dr. Marc Shapiro

Marc B. Shapiro holds the Weinberg Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Scranton. A graduate of Brandeis (BA) and Harvard (PhD), he is the author of numerous books, articles, and reviews and is a popular scholar in residence at synagogues around the world. He has written Between the Yeshiva World and Modern Orthodoxy and The Limits of Orthodox Theology, both of which were National Jewish Book Award Finalists. Other books of his include Saul Lieberman and the Orthodox, Studies in Maimonides and His Interpreters, and Changing

Dr. Marc Shapiro bio & resources

Past classes of e-TiM: Renewing the Old, Sanctifying the New

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