Rabbinic Torah Study Seminar (RTS) 2011 Elective Classes Sources

Program Theme: Jewish Peoplehood: The Meaning of the Collective in Modern Jewish Life (RTS) 2011

July 18, 2011

July 18, 2011

Click on the highlighted links below to view the sources from the elective classes taught at the Shalom Hartman Institute during the Summer 2011 Rabbinic Torah Study Seminar. (Please be patient with download times. Some files are extremely large.)

Adam Afterman, Devekut: Intimacy with God in Rabbinic, Philosophical and Mystical Texts
Tal Becker, Peace Negotiations in In-Depth: Legal, Policy and Jewish Perspective
Shaye Cohen, Jews and Early Christians in Talmudic Texts
Yossi Klein Halevi, Peoplehood and Identity in Contemporary Israeli Music
Tova Hartman, Holy Priests and Men of God? Social Criticism and Gender in Rabbinic Literature
Rut Kara-Ivanov Kaniel, Sin, Repentance, Repair and Redemption and Mystical Literature
Benjamin Lau, Images of Jerusalem Leadership on the Eve of the Destruction of the First Temple: Political and Religious Dilemmas
Michael Marmur, I and Vow: A Liberal Jew Reads Nedarim
Shlomo Naeh, Challenging Questions and the Culture of the Talmudic Beit Midrash, Part 1 , Part 2
Biti Roi, Ritual and Body Performance in the Modern Intellectual World: Kabbala and Hassidism
Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi, Between God, Community and the Individual: Modern Jewish Thinkers on Religion and Religiosity ( Please click here to receive the file by email. )
Eli Schonfeld, "Tzadik B’emunato Yichieh": Between Righteousness and Mitzvot
Bernie Steinberg, Love of God/Love of People: Rambam on the Interplay between Theology and Ethics
Noam Zion, The Founder of a Spiritual Nation: Three Images of Abraham in Jewish tradition and the Dilemmas of a Chosen People ( Please click here to receive the file by email. )
Zvi Zohar, Navigation Towards a Non-Halakhic Objective: Lessons from Sephardic Masters of Modern Times
Avivah Zornberg, Women Lost and Found

Program: Rabbinic Torah Study Seminar

Program Year: 2011

Program Theme: Jewish Peoplehood: The Meaning of the Collective in Modern Jewish Life

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Rabbinic Torah Study Seminar (RTS) 2011 Elective Classes Sources