Hadar Campus Scholars

This lecture is an attempt to think about Jewish law as occupying a number of distinct genres, and to think about the halakhot of sexuality as representing a kind of halakhic writing which is frequently overlooked. The class is part of the ON HALAKHAH series. It was delivered at Penn on March 20, 2013 by David Zvi Kalman.

Source sheet: davidzvi.com/onhalakhah/On_Halakhah_8_Halakhot_of_Sex.pdf

Weekly class on commentaries on the weekly Torah portion, with a focus on traditional medieval commentators (ex. Rashi, Ramban), along with midrashic texts and medieval commentators.

Recording of class on March 17, 2013, taught by Yael Kalman.

This class attempts to cover a wide variety of Orthodox and Conservative approaches to Halakhah and Homosexuality, include those of Rabbis Steven Greenberg, Joel Roth and Gordon Tucker. It concludes with a suggestion as to a new approach. The class was delivered as part of the ON HALAKHAH series at Penn on March 13, 2013, by David Zvi Kalman

Source sheet: davidzvi.com/onhalakhah/On_Halakhah_7_Halakhah_and_Homosexuality.pdf

Rules about forgetting to say v'ten tal u'matar.

Rules of the 4th and 9th blessings of the Amidah

This is part of the *On Halakhah* series. It was delivered on February 27, 2013 at Penn by David Zvi Kalman. It addresses some of the halakhic material dealing with barriers (or lack of barriers) to women leading tefillah.

Source sheet: davidzvi.com/onhalakhah/On_Halakhah_6_Women_in_Prayer_II.pdf