Pardes Live and Mini-Series

Pardes was honored to welcome Dr. Ruth Calderon for an insightful evening on Secular Talmud: A Contradiction in Terms? Rabbi Leon Morris posed a number of thought-provoking questions during the evening's discussion which included:

Can the Halakha have meaning for contemporary Israeli secular Jews? Can the entire vocabulary of Jewish life be reclaimed and reshaped?

Saul Lieberman: "When I pray I talk to God. When I study, God talks to me." Do you find God in these texts?

What is the purpose or "end" of Torah study ?

What would an Israeli Jewish society marinated in classic Jewish texts look like to you?

* Reflect on the issue of who "owns" Judaism in Israel in light of 30 years of Jewish renewal and reclaiming of the Jewish bookshelf.

 

In this class that was given live at Pardes, Dr. David Bernstein runs through 900 years of Polish Jewish history.

Celebrating the publication of his book Genesis: From Creation to Covenant, Rabbi Dr. Zvi Grumet hosted two lectures at Pardes. In this lecture, he discusses The Covenant of the Pieces: When God Meets Man. Click here for the first lecture The Legacy of Cain: Meaningfulness and Mortality.

Celebrating the publication of his book Genesis: From Creation to Covenant, Rabbi Dr. Zvi Grumet hosted two lectures at Pardes. In this lecture, he discusses the The Legacy of Cain: Meaningfulness and Mortality. Click here for the second lecture The Covenant of the Pieces: When God Meets Man.

Shula Mola is the Chairman of the Board of the Israel Associstion for Ethiopian Jews, an educator, activist and researcher. Pardes was thrilled to welcome her to speak about her story and her upcoming book which focuses on racism towards Ethiopian high school students and their struggle for normalcy and integration. Shula was born in Ethiopia and made Aliyah as a child.

In this class that was recorded live at Pardes, Dr. Rachel Korazim looks into Israeli poetry and the discourse that surrounds it, with reference to Biblical events.

In this lecture that was recorded live at Pardes Jerusalem, Judy Klitsner discusses The Turbulent Waters of Noah and Jonah: How Similar Stories Say Opposite Things About the Human Soul.

Why kill a goat, or swing a chicken round your head, or throw crumbs into a river to expiate your sins? Is this mere symbolism, or is there something more fundamental going on? In this episode, we attempt to shed new light upon some very ancient rituals of atonement, and respond to four questions that were left hanging at the end of episode 2.

When we repent, there is a sense in which we’re seeking to undo damage done. It’s almost as if we’re trying to undo the past. How seriously should we take this metaphor? Is the past something that can be undone? In Teshuva and Time Travel, Samuel Lebens – a philosopher at the University of Haifa, and adjunct faculty member at Pardes – will lead a tour through classical Jewish texts on the nature of repentance, and explore them though the lens of contemporary philosophical reflection on the nature of time.

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Are we supposed to remember our sins forever, even after we’ve repented? Or, should we forget them? The Talmud seems to say one thing, and Rav Tzadok Hacohen of Lublin, seems to say another. In this episode of Teshuva and Time Travel, we address this question, and reconcile this conflict, generating the surprising conclusion that, according to Rav Tzadok, repentance has the power to rewrite your past in radical ways.

When we repent, there is a sense in which we’re seeking to undo damage done. It’s almost as if we’re trying to undo the past. How seriously should we take this metaphor? Is the past something that can be undone? In Teshuva and Time Travel, Samuel Lebens – a philosopher at the University of Haifa, and adjunct faculty member at Pardes – will lead a tour through classical Jewish texts on the nature of repentance, and explore them though the lens of contemporary philosophical reflection on the nature of time.

Click here for more episodes in the series.

When we repent, there is a sense in which we’re seeking to undo damage done. It’s almost as if we’re trying to undo the past. How seriously should we take this metaphor? Is the past something that can be undone? In this series of podcasts, Samuel Lebens – a philosopher at the University of Haifa, and adjunct faculty member at Pardes – will lead a tour through classical Jewish texts on the nature of repentance, and explore them though the lens of contemporary philosophical reflection on the nature of time.

Episode 1: Reish Lakish and Ockham

The Talmudic sage, Reish Lakish, was well versed in the principles of teshuva (repentance). He had lived as a wayward bandit, before reforming his ways and becoming a leader of Rabbinic Judaism. He was one of the first thinkers to claim, explicitly, that your teshuva has the power to change the past. In this episode, we try to understand this claim of Reish Lakish, in terms of a philosophical distinction first drawn by William of Ockham.