Holiday Webinars for Rabbis Archive
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High Holidays | Sukkot | Hanukkah | Purim | Pesah | Yom Ha’atzma’ut | Shavuot
Malchuyot, Zichronot, Shofarot:
A Roadmap for Our Times
with Rabbi Ayelet Cohen
(High Holidays 5786)
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Guiding Our Broken Hearts into the New Year
Confession And Community
with Rabbi Gordon Tucker
(High Holidays 5786)
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In the Plural: Communal Confession and Ethical Clarity
Commemorating October 7:
A Workshop on Ritual
with Rabbi Jan Uhrbach
(High Holidays 5785)
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Chat and Notes
Liturgy as Philosophy: The High Holiday Mahzor as a Source of Inspiration in Jewish Thought
with Dr. Shira Billet
(High Holidays 5785)
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Sufferings Large and Small:
The Religious Meaning of Life鈥檚 Everyday Disappointments
(High Holidays 5784)
with Dr. Sarah Wolfe
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Polarization, Mistrust, and Teshuvah:
Civic Friendship in Jewish Thought and
the High Holiday Liturgy
(High Holidays 5784)
with Dr. Shira Billet
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The Complexity of Memory During the Yamim Noraim
(High Holidays 5783)
with Rabbi Mychal Springer
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Hineni: A Traveler’s Prayer
(High Holidays 5783)
with Rabbi Eliezer Diamond
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Spiritual Insights into the High Holiday Liturgy from Jewish Mysticism
(High Holidays 5782)
with Dr. Eitan Fishbane
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The Musaf of Rosh Hashanah as Performative Theology
(High Holidays 5782)
with Rabbi Eliezer Diamond
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Cultivating Resilience
(High Holidays 5782)
with Rabbi Mychal Springer
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Authority, Agency, and Powerlessness: Malkhuyot and the Challenges of 2020
(High Holidays 5781)
with Rabbi Jan Uhrbach
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Summary and discussion questions
Fear, Anger and Acceptance: U-netaneh Tokef in the Age of Covid-19
(High Holidays 5781)
with Rabbi Eliezer Diamond
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Aval Anahnu Va鈥檃votenu Hatanu: Atoning for the Sins of Prior Generations?
(Yom Kippur 5780)
with Rabbi Jan Uhrbach.
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Unravelling World Leadership and the Jewish Community
(High Holidays 5780) with Dr. Richard Haass in conversation with Rabbi Julia Andelman.
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鈥淵ou are My Witnesses鈥�: The Religious Meanings of Bearing Witness
(High Holidays 5779) 飞颈迟丑听Rabbi David Hoffman
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Creating Intimacy Through Confrontation: The Role of Rebuke in the Religious Life
(High Holidays 5778) with Rabbi David Hoffman
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On Community and Civic Engagement
(High Holidays 5778) with Ruth Messinger
Related Links
- David Wolpe,
- Sharon Brous,
- Arnold Eisen, “Rabbis Should Speak Out”
- AJWS, [PDF, Source sheet]
Hope as Spiritual Practice
(High Holidays 5777) with Rabbi David Hoffman
Download the source sheetfor this webinar, and a translation of the texts courtesy of
Rabbi Benjamin Resnick.
Referenced Works
- Jonathan Sacks, To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
- Alan Mittleman, Hope in a Democratic Age: Philosophy, Religion, and Political Theory
- Jerome Groopman, The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness
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with Dr. Eitan Fishbane
The Transformative Power of Ritual: Reflections on the Shofar, the Avodah, and Kol Nidrei
(5775) with Rabbi Eliezer Diamond
Sukkot and Kohelet: A time to rejoice or a time to agonize? (5777)
with Dr. Stephen P. Garfinkel
Al Nissim – On Miracles(5781) with Rabbi Gordon Tucker
Wonder of Wonder, Miracle of Miracles: The Lessons of the Hanukkah Miracle (5779) with Dr. Marjorie Lehman
Hanukkah: Dedicating Temples Past and Future听(5777)
with Dr. David C. Kraemer
Miracles, Light, and Mysticism: Hasidic Reflections on Hanukkah听(5780) with Dr. Eitan Fishbane
Difficult Choices: The Challenge of Prioritizing Mitzvot (Hanukkah 5778)with Rabbi Eliezer Diamond
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with Rabbi Judith Hauptman
Related links:
- : book chapter by Geoffrey Herman
- : article inThe Jewish Weekby Judith Hauptman
- 贬辞飞听贬辞濒颈诲补测蝉听辞蹿听尝颈驳丑迟听惭补办别听贬补苍耻办办补丑听叠谤颈驳丑迟别谤: short video by Judith Hauptman
Cynicism and Courage: Two Faces of Purim(5781) with Rabbi Eliezer Diamond
笔耻谤颈尘鈥檚听OtherMitzvot, Past and Present(5779)
飞颈迟丑听Rabbi Judith Hauptman
Women Reading the Megillah for Men: Whose Responsibility is Equality?听(5777)
with Rabbi Judith Hauptman
History or Herstory: An Equivocal Reading of the Book of Esther (5780)
with Dr. Amy Kalmanofsky
Humans Plan, God Agrees: What the Book of Esther Tells Us about the Origins of Jewish Law听(5778)
飞颈迟丑听Dr. Benjamin Sommer
Purim and the Perils of Diaspora (5776)
with Dr. Alan Cooper
Source sheets: Greek Versions of Esther | Law (讚转) in Esther
Referenced works:
- “Esther and the Politics of Diaspora” by Elsie R. Stern, JQR, Vol. 100, No. 1 (Winter 2010), pp. 25-53
- “The Rite to Be Reckless: On the Perpetration and Interpretation of Purim Violence” by Elliott Horowitz, Poetics Today, Vol. 15, No. 1 (Spring, 1994), pp. 9-54
- The JPS Bible Commentary: Estherby Adele Berlin, JPS (2001)
The Cow that Laid an Egg: The Seder and Conflict Resolution (2021)
with Rabbi Robbie Harris
Did the Exodus Really Happen?(5779)
飞颈迟丑听Dr. Benjamin Sommer
Should We Wear Black Tie for Our Seders? (5777)
with Rabbi Burton Visotzky
Referenced works:
- Siegfried Stein, 鈥淭he Influence of Symposia Literature on the Literary Form of the Pesah Haggadah鈥�, Journal of Jewish Studies (1957)
- Gordon J. Bahr, 鈥淭he Seder of Passover and the Eucharistic Words鈥�, Novum Testamentum, Vol. 12, Fasc. 2 (Apr., 1970), 181-202
- Baruch M. Bokser, The Origins of the Seder: The Passover Rite and Early Rabbinic Judaism University of California Press, 1986
- Burton Visotzky, , St. Martin’s Press, 2016
When, How and Why are We Free? Revisiting the Concept of Herut听(5780)
飞颈迟丑听Rabbi Eliezer Diamond
Meaning from Maggid: Contemporary Scholarship, Contemporary Messages听(5778)
飞颈迟丑听Rabbi Judith Hauptman
Bloody Doors and Bloody Grooms (Pesah 5776)
with Dr. Amy Kalmanofsky
Thinking About Israel at 68 (5776)
with Chancellor Arnold M. Eisen
Renewing the Covenant, Renewing the World听(5780)
with Dr. David Kraemer
Where is Halakhah From? Revelation in Modern Jewish Thought and Law (Shavuot 5778)
with Dr. Yonatan Brafman
Referenced Works:
- 讬讜讞谞谉 讚讜讚 住讬诇诪谉, 拽讜诇 讙讚讜诇 讜诇讗 讬住祝: 转讜专转 讬砖专讗诇 讘讬谉 砖诇诪讜转 诇讛砖转诇诪讜转 (1999)
- Moshe Halbertal, People of the Book: Canon, Meaning, and Authority (1997)
- Leora Batnitzky and Yonatan Brafman (eds.), Jewish Legal Theories: Writings on State, Religion, and Morality (2018)
Tracing the Contours of Belief and Desire: A Look at the First and Tenth Commandments (Shavuot 5776)
with Rabbi Eliezer B. Diamond
Disciplining Desire: The Meaning of the Tenth Commandment(Shavuot 5779)
飞颈迟丑听Rabbi Eliezer Diamond
Additional References:
- Alexander Rof茅, 鈥淭he Tenth Commandment in the light of four Deuteronomic laws鈥� in The Ten Commandments in History and Tradition (1990) 45-65
- Eliezer Diamond, 鈥淭he Way of Torah as Askesis: An Ascetic Conceptualization of the Life of 鈥楳itzvah,鈥欌�� CrossCurrents Vol. 57, No. 4 (winter 2008), 563-577
How Do We Come to Know God? Psalm 19 and the Balancing Act of Jewish Theology (Shavuot 5777)
with Dr. Benjamin Sommer
References:
- H.-J. Kraus, Psalms 1-59 (Continental Commentaries), Fortress Press (1993)鈥攆or Karl Barth’s interpretation
- Alan Cooper,“Creation, Philosophy and Spirituality: Aspects of Jewish Interpretation of Psalm 19” inPursuing the Text: Studies in Honor of Ben Zion Wacholder on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday,Sheffield Academic Press (1994)
- 鈥淣ature, Revelation and Grace in Psalm 19: Towards a Theological Reading of Scripture,鈥� 贬补谤惫补谤诲听Theological Review108 (2015) 376鈥�401
Ruth and Naomi’s Holy Relationship and its Meaning for Shavuot(5775)
with Dr. Amy Kalmanofsky
