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2009-10 Lectures

Berman Shul Lectures 2009-10

Lecturer: Malka Piotrakovsky מלכה פיוטרקובסקי
Category: Tanach lectures
Subject: מדוע התחפשה יהודית? על בגדים תחפושות ושינויי מציאות .
Language: Hebrew
Description: The role and importance of clothes throughout the Tanach with an emphasis on Megilat Esther.

Lecturer: Menachem (Mel) Alexenberg
Category: Bellows-Kahn lecture series
Subject: On Being a Zionist Artist in a Networked World
Language: English
Description: Addressing the Zionist challenge of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook to renew the old and sanctify the new, the lecture will explore the vibrant interface between the structure of Jewish consciousness, the realization of the Zionist dream in the State of Israel, and new directions in art emerging from post-digital creativity in a networked world. See also www.melalexenberg.com

Lecturer: Leeor Gottleib
Category: Tanach lectures
Subject:Who Censored Psalms? מי צינזר את ספר תהילים?
Language: Hebrew
Description: There are a group of psalms that have a unique attribute. Were these psalms changed from their initial versions and if so when?

Lecturer: Dr. Yehuda Berenson
Category: Tanach lectures
Subject:chiastic structures in megilat Ruth
Language: Hebrew
Description: There are many chiastic structures (ABCcba) in Megilat Ruth both on a macro level i.e. the whole megilah and also within the chapters of Ruth that reveal new insights into Ruth.

Lecturer: Prof. Menachem Levine
Category: Yom Haatzmaut lecture
Subject: The history and pre-history of the state of Israel
Language: Hebrew
Description: Prof. Levine was born in 1918. He joined the Beitar movement at an early age and helped Zeev Jabotinsky in Poland. He came to Israel and became active in the Etzel and as a chemist he helped make explosives for them. A personal history which intermeshes with the events that shaped the country before and after independence.

Lecturer: Prof. Avraham Grossman
Category: Tanach lectures
Subject: Rashi as a feminist
Language: Hebrew
Description: Insights into the Rashi's commentaries which show Rashi as someone who stood up for the honor and centrality of the role of women in Judaism.

Lecturer: Prof. Abraham Nudelman
Category: Science lecture
Subject: The development of an anti-schizophrenic drug AN-168
Language: English
Description: The development of an efficacious and safe anti-schizophrenic drug which has a surprise beneficial side effect

Lecturer: Rabbi Stuart Weiss
Category: Torah lecture
Subject: Do we worship Hashem or halacha?
Language: English
Description: Do we put too much stress on the letter of the law being meticulous in keeping halacha and ignore the reasons that the halacha was given?

Lecturer: Rabbi Yoel bin Nun
Category: Tanach lecture
Subject: The connection between Chanuka, olive oil and the prophet Zecharya
Language: Hebrew
Description: Was Chanuka celebrated before the time of the Maccabis? What are the early roots for the celebration of Chanuka and what is the connection with the prophet Zecharya?

Lecturer: Rabbi Pinchas Rubenstein
Category: Torah lecture
Subject:Does Love Cover All Transgressions?! (Love and Boundaries in Education)
Language: Hebrew
Description: How should we educate our children and bring them up with values that we want to impart without them rebelling.

Lecturer: Rabbi Mottie Goldreich
Category: Tanach lecture
Subject:Jerusalem in the book of Shoftim
Language: Hebrew
Description: The importance of Jerusalem in pre-Davidic times. The role that Jerusalem plays in building the moral fiber of the Jewish people.

Lecturer: Rav shaul Bar Ilan
Category: Torah lectures
Subject: "חייב לכעוס עליהם ולהכלימם" בגמרא בהסטוריה ובאגדה
Language: Hebrew
Description: How a teacher should deal with a student according to the Rambam and others.

Lecturer: Rav Yaakov Meidan
Category: Tanach lectures
Subject:The connection between Judaism and ecology
Language: Hebrew
Description: The Jewish outlook on nature and ecology

 
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