How to Make Work Meaningful for Us: Exploring the Value of Work in Biblical and Rabbinic Sources
Nov 22, 2021 By Eliezer B. Diamond z”l | Public Event video | Video Lecture
Work can be uplifting; it can also be draining and demoralizing. This depends not only on what we do but on how we do it.We鈥檒l look at Jewish sources that offer us different ways of thinking about work and some wisdom about how to make the work we do work for us.
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If There Is No Bread, There Is No Torah: The Other Careers of the Talmudic Rabbis
Nov 15, 2021 By Rachel Rosenthal | Public Event video | Video Lecture
We often think of the rabbis in the Talmud as having careers as full-time rabbis. However, numerous narrative traditions tell us about their other jobs and their financial struggles. If one cannot make a living learning Torah, how should we balance Torah with more mundane concerns? We鈥檒l study some of these stories together and look at some models for lives that are enriched both by Torah and by work.
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A Nice, Jewish Teacher: How American Elementary Education Became 鈥淲omen鈥檚 Work鈥�
Nov 1, 2021 By Shira D. Epstein | Public Event video | Video Lecture
Early 20thcentury elementary school teaching became synonymous with being female, and particularly in NYC, with being the right kind of Jewish young woman.
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The Jewish Middle Class in an Age of Social Justice
Oct 25, 2021 By Nancy Sinkoff | Public Event video | Video Lecture
his session will explore the historian Lucy S. Dawidowicz鈥檚 challenging essay, 鈥淭he Business of American Jews: Notes on a Work in Progress鈥� (1992), which called for a reassessment of Jewish economic social mobility as apositivevalue in Jewish life.
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Even God Makes Time for Leisure: Rabbinic Narratives About God鈥檚 Work, Play, and Rest Schedule
Oct 11, 2021 By Sarit Kattan Gribetz | Public Event video | Video Lecture
Genesis 2:2-3announces that, after working hard to create the worldand humanity over the course of six days, God took a day off to celebrate the Sabbath. Other passages in the Bible build uponGod鈥檚 dayof rest to mandate that all created beings rest, andthat heads of householdsensure that everyone under their control be allowed to rest on the seventh day. Divine time, we learn, alternates between periods of creative work and deliberate rest. But what does God鈥檚 work entail,how does God manage divinetime,does God make time forleisure, anddoes God have a schedule?
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Six Days Shall You Labor: Shabbat and the Meaning of Work
Oct 4, 2021 By David C. Kraemer | Public Event video | Video Lecture
Shabbat, a day on which 鈥渨ork鈥� is forbidden, also offers a commentary on work鈥攐n its place in our lives, its importance, and its limitations. Notably, the rabbinic Sabbath鈥攖hat is, the 鈥渢raditional鈥� Sabbath鈥攐ffers a perspective that differs from that of the Torah, both original and unique.JoinDr. David Kraemerto explore biblical and rabbinic views of the Sabbath as commentaries on the significance of work.
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The Power of Emotion: Judaism and the Inner Life
By 91快播 | Public Event video | Video Lecture
Joy. Grief. Anger. Shame. Love. Emotional experience is often at the center of our lives. 91快播 scholars explore perceptions of emotions in Jewish texts and offer surprising and useful insights for understanding the feelings that make up our inner worlds.
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鈥淪ix Days Shall You Labor:鈥� Perspectives on Work in Jewish Text and Tradition
Oct 4, 2021 By 91快播 | Video Lecture
Many of us spend more time at work than anywhere else over the course of our lives鈥攂ut are we defined by what we do? In this text-based series, 91快播 scholars will explore ideas about the meaning of work and rest in Jewish tradition, Jewish social movements around work, as well as the roles that gender, geography, and shifting economic and social circumstances have played in Jews鈥� professional paths and our understandings of the meaning and value of work.
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