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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.
Audio
Nov 4, 2013

Who's Afraid of God? Why Modern Orthodoxy Has Run Away From Jewish Mysticism (Renewing Our Spirit 2013)

Rabbi Dr. Herzl Hefter

Audio
Nov 4, 2013

Torment and Ecstasy in the Teachings of Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav (Renewing Our Spirit 2013)

Joel Hecker

Audio
Nov 4, 2013

The Mystical Program of the Kabbalists in Zefat (Renewing Our Spirit 2013)

Joel Hecker

Audio
Nov 4, 2013

Arguing With the Divine: Belief in God in the Face of Injustice (Renewing Our Spirit 2012)

Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Arguing With the Divine: Belief in God in the Face of Injustice (Renewing Our Spirit 2012)
Audio
Nov 7, 2012

Spinoza, the Kotzker Rebbe, and Me (Renewing Our Spirit 2012)

Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Audio
Nov 7, 2012

The Seven Pillars of an Ideal Jewish Society

Rabbi Mordechai Bar-Or

Mordechai Bar-Or attended Yeshivat har Etzion, and was ordained by Chief Rabbi Goren in 1984. Mr. Bar-Or received the Avi Chai prize for his work in establishing and directing Elul, the first Beit Midrash for secular and religious Israelis to study…
Audio
Aug 17, 2012

Philosophy Versus Personality: Moderate Elements in the Messianic Lore of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Professor Dov Schwartz

Co-sponsored by the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies at York University.
Program
Jun 29, 2012

New Paths for Ba'alei Teshuva: Part One

Dr. Elliott Malamet

This series of blog posts seeks to discuss, if only preliminarily, the journey of ba’alei teshuvah (loosely defined as those who were not raised in a home of halakhic observance but chose this way of life at some point) and their place within…
Article
Jun 14, 2012

The Hertz Chumash United Us

Rabbi Jay Kelman

During shul this past week, I was reading the notes of the Hertz Chumash, as I often do. This likely puts me in small company as the Hertz Chumash has gone the way—pardon the expression—of the dodo bird. It so happens the shul at which I daven has a…
Article
Jun 3, 2012