Ashkenazim and Sefardim: The Goals of Talmud Study, special lecture by Rabbi Dr. Jeffrey Woolf

On methodological and cultural differences and their practical applications

Rabbi Prof. Jeffrey Woolf is an internationally known scholar, lecturer and public figure. He serves as an Associate Professor in the Talmud Department at Bar-Ilan University where he specializes in the History of Halakhah, Medieval and Renaissance Jewish History, and the inter-action between Judaism, Islam and Christianity. He is the director of Bar Ilan's Institute for the Study of Post-Talmudic Halakhah.