Great Rabbinic Thinkers

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e-TiM: Who Were the Geonim and Why Do They Matter?

Dr. Marc Herman

Who Were the Geonim and Why Do They Matter? Dr. Marc Herman Wednesdays, 1:00 pm May 10 - 31 The Babylonian geonim constitute the indispensable bridge between the period of the Talmud and medieval Jewish centers in North Africa, Spain, and…
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Rabbi Yosef Karo and the Making of the Shulhan Arukh (Part 4) - How the Shulhan Arukh Became the Authoritative Code of Jewish Law

Rabbi Yosie Levine

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Rabbi Yosef Karo and the Making of the Shulhan Arukh (Part 3) - Rabbi Moshe Isserles and the Making of Ashkenaz

Rabbi Yosie Levine

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Rabbi Yosef Karo and the Making of the Shulhan Arukh (Part 2) - Rabbi Yosef Karo and His Shulhan Arukh

Rabbi Yosie Levine

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Rabbi Yosef Karo and the Making of the Shulhan Arukh (Part 1) - Rabbi Yosef Karo and His Beit Yosef

Rabbi Yosie Levine

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A Middle Ground Between Orthodoxy and Reform: Rabbi Zechariah Frankel and the Positive-Historical School (Part 10)

Dr. Marc Shapiro

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A Middle Ground Between Orthodoxy and Reform: Rabbi Zechariah Frankel and the Positive-Historical School (Part 9)

Dr. Marc Shapiro

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e-TiM: Rabbi Yosef Karo and the Making of the Shulhan Arukh

Rabbi Yosie Levine

Rabbi Yosef Karo and the Making of the Shulhan Arukh Rabbi Yosie Levine Wednesdays, February 1 - 22 1:00pm Eastern Who was Rabbi Yosef Karo? What did he set out to accomplish with the publication of his halakhic works? And how did the Shulhan Arukh…
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A Middle Ground Between Orthodoxy and Reform: Rabbi Zechariah Frankel and the Positive-Historical School (Part 8)

Dr. Marc Shapiro

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Rav Kook on "Can Maccabees and Hellenists Get Along?" (Part 2)

Rabbi Ari Chwat-Shvat

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