Great Rabbinic Thinkers

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Shmuel David Luzzatto (Shadal): Modern Biblical Scholar and Traditionalist

Rabbi Dr. Martin Lockshin

This presentation by Dr. Marty Lockshin continues the Torah in Motion series "The Thought and Worldview of Influential Jewish Thinkers."   Shmuel David Luzzatto (also known under the acronym of SHaDaL) was an Italian rabbi…
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Self-Revelation in Rav Soloveitchik's Writings

Rabbi Reuven Ziegler

This presentation by Rabbi Reuven Ziegler continues the Torah in Motion series "The Thought and Worldview of Influential Jewish Thinkers."   Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, known as "The Rav," is widely recognized as the…
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Class 138. Great Rabbinic Thinkers: Rabbi Yehezkel Abramsky (part 5)

Dr. Marc Shapiro

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Class 137. Great Rabbinic Thinkers: Rabbi Yehezkel Abramsky (part 4)

Dr. Marc Shapiro

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Class 132. Great Rabbinic Thinkers: Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, The Early Years (part 2)

Dr. Marc Shapiro

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Four Who Entered the Pardes: How Rabbi Akiva Emerged Unscathed (Renewing Our Spirit 2013)

Joel Hecker

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Did the Tannaim Study Philosophy? Socrates, Aphrodite & Rabban Gamliel (Renewing Our Spirit 2013)

Ari Lamm

Did the Tannaim Study Philosophy? Socrates, Aphrodite & Rabban Gamliel, with Ari Lamm is being offered free for a limited time. Just add it to your basket--there will be no charge.
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The Mystical Program of the Kabbalists in Zefat (Renewing Our Spirit 2013)

Joel Hecker

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Faith in Complexity: The Life and Teachings of Rav Yehuda Amital

Dr. Yehudah Mirsky

This presentation by Dr. Yehudah Mirsky continues the Torah in Motion series "The Thought and Worldview of Influential Jewish Thinkers."   Rav Yehuda Amital, zt"l, predicted that the phenomenon of Yeshiva students being…
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Class 130. Great Rabbinic Thinkers: Rav Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor (Part 7)

Dr. Marc Shapiro

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