Harvard Torah

This week Mishy Harman '08, host of the acclaimed Israel Story podcast, joins our own Harvard Hillel chronicler Noah Epstein '21, outgoing editor of our student 'Nosh on This' newsletter, to discuss Multiplicity, the array of ways in which so many hearts are moved to help shape our community.

This week Harvard Law School Professor and Deputy Dean, John Goldberg, a leader in present-day tort and property law, and Hannah Miller '22, who has recently helped in the editing of a tort law textbook, join the Harvard Torah conversation, as our Torah becomes very technical, legally speaking.

As the scriptural story of our people's journey reaches Mount Sinai, Rabbi Jonah Steinberg welcomes Shaye Cohen, Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy, and Rebecca Thrope '21 to discuss Revelation; where does Torah come from?

In this special musical episode of Harvard Torah, for Shabbat Shirah, our Sabbath of Song, Gund University Organist and Choirmaster in Harvard's Memorial Church, Ed Elwyn Jones, and countertenor, conductor, and composer Benjamin Wenzelberg '21, join our Executive Director, Rabbi Jonah Steinberg, PhD, to speak – and sing! – about liberty and uplift, as the Torah celebrates our freedom from Pharaoh's tyranny with the Song at the Sea.

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This week, Rabbi Jonah Steinberg welcomes Harvard Divinity School Professor of Philosophy and Theology, David Lamberth, and Emily Malpass '21 to take on the problem of Evil, as we read of the final devastating plagues in Egypt in the story of our Exodus.

This week Professor Noah Feldman and Shlomo Zach Cahlon '21 join in our Harvard Torah conversation to discuss the theme of Intransigence – Pharaoh's, Moses', Israel's, even God's.

This week, Dr. Linda Chavers, Allston Burr Resident Dean of Winthrop House and Assistant Dean of Harvard College and Lecturer in the department of African and African American Studies, and Natalie Kahn '23 join in our Harvard Torah podcast conversation on the theme of Liberation, as we begin our book of Exodus, and as we face a fateful moment for liberty in this land.

This week Professor Peter Machinist and Alicia Vernell Rivera '22 join our Harvard Torah conversation on the theme of Blessing, as Jacob imparts final words to his offspring, and as we come to the end of our biblical book of Genesis.

This week, 300th Anniversary University Professor Martha Minow and clinical psychology graduate student Sarah Horne '19 join in our Harvard Torah podcast conversation to discuss the theme of Reconciliation, with regard to the biblical story of Joseph and his brothers and in our own times.

This week, Professor of Government Eric Nelson and student of Government Sam Meyerson '22 join Rabbi Jonah Steinberg to reflect on Power with regard to the Biblical Joseph's rise in Egypt, the kingly Executive, and the allures and hazards of proximity to monarchical prerogative in our ancient tradition and today.