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Lecture Title: Major Dilemmas Facing the Jewish People; Membership Issues

Lecturer: Donniel Hartman

Lecture Sources

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Birth

1. Genesis 12: 1-3, 13:14-18

2. Exodus 1: 1-13

3. Ezra 9: 1-2

4. Yehuda Halevi – Kuzari 1:95

5. Leviticus 26: 44-46

6. Babylonian Talumud Tractate Sanhedrin 44a  English here

7. Responsa Tzitz Eliezer 13:93

8. Genesis 17: 15-22

9. Genesis 25: 19-23

10. Genesis 28: 1-4

11. Genesis Rabbah 63:6

12. Exodus 6: 2-9

13. Exodus 19: 1-9

14. Isaiah 43: 10-12

15. Deuteronomy 28: 60-64

16. Deuteronomy 30: 1-10

17. Babylonian Talmud Tractate Sanhedrin 97b   English here

18. Maimonides Introduction to Perek Helek

19. Maimonides Hilkhot Avodah Zarah Ch. 1   English here

20. Responsa of Maimonides 293 (Letter to Obadiah the Ger)

21. Maimonides Hilkhot Avodah Zarah Ch. 2:8   English here

22. Maimonides Hilkhot Teshuva Ch. 3: 13-14, 24   English here

Intermarriage 

23. Exodus 2: 16-22, 4:18-26

24. Ruth 1, 2:1-12, 4: 18-22

25. Deuteronomy 21: 10-14

26. Deuteronomy 7: 1-11

27. Ezra 9 , 10

28. Babylonian Talumud Tractate Avodah Zarah 36b  English here

29. Babylonian Talumud Tractate Sanhedrin 81b-82b  English here

30. Exodus 1 : 1-5

31. Leviticus 24: 10-17

32. Mishnah Kiddushin 3: 12

Conversion

33. Sifra Kedoshim 8: 3

34. Babylonian Talumud Tractate Sabbat 31a  English here

35. Babylonian Talumud Tractate Yevamot 47a-b

36. Maimonides Hilkhot Isurei Biah, Ch. 14: 1-5  English here

37. M. Feinstein Igrot Moshe Yoreh Deah 1: 157, 1: 160

38. Shulhan Arukh Yoreh Deah 268: 3, 12  English here

Program: Russel Berrie Fellowship in Interreligious Studies

Program Year: 2010

Program Theme: The Jewish People: Identity and Challenges