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Click here to see details of the lectures and hevruta study at Hartman Institute’s Tikkun Leil Shavuot 5770:

"Faith in God and Living a Jewish Life"

May 18-19, 2010

Video programming

• Donniel Hartman: Shavuot teaches us that ideas matter
• Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi: Revelation, Modernity, and New Forms of Prayer
• Melilah Hellner-Eshed: Ways of Remembering Sinai – Part 1
• Melilah Hellner-Eshed: Ways of Remembering Sinai – Part 2

Articles and essays

• David Hartman: Ground for Zionist revolution was set at Sinai
• David Hartman: Sinai and Exodus: Choosing life in midst of uncertainty
• Noam Zion: Can later rabbinic creativity transcend its origins: Moshe v. Akiva in the Talmud Jewish law’s ideal state and pragmatic state

• Noam Zion: Laws of pe’ah and leket: Hesed and the Jewish way of life toward the poor, widow, and stranger
• Baruch Frydman-Kohl: First day, last commandment
• Pluralism voiced by classical sources

Essays and commentary on Megillat Ruth (Book of Ruth)

• Micah Goodman: Megillat Ruth and ‘Matan Torah’ to the world
• Noam Zion: To be ‘remaindered’: Book of Ruth’s Naomi as mourner
• Channa Pincasi: Women, Come and Read All of the Megillot