The Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies presents a pre-Purim lecture:

A Jew in a Foreign Court: From Esther to Today

This evening was sponsored in loving memory of Shlomo Reutlinger z”l upon the marking of his first yahrzeit, by his family who miss him dearly.

"When I have traveled around the world and met leaders of Jewish communities I have been surprised, even amazed how many professional and lay leaders of Jewish communities around the world have particular memories of their time in Pardes which was a deep, a seminal, an extraordinary important station on their Jewish journeys." --Daniel Taub (Year Program 1985-86) at Pardes on March 4, 2020.

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Credits:

Host: Daniel Taub

Executive Producer: Adam Titcher

The podcast was originally produced by the Society of Independent Spirituality, and Rabbi Ari Ze'ev Schwartz. You can listen to more SIS interviews (some including Pardes students) online. To download more digital content from Yiscah Smith or to visit her patreon page, please visit her author page on Elmad.

This podcast was originally produced in 8 parts, with each part focused on one question and topic.

* Friends and Teachers

* Suffering

* Mitzvot

* The student teacher

* Soul Desires

* Kabalat Atzmi vs Tikun Atzmi

* Feminine and Masculine Spirituality

* Personal Goals

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at: [email protected]. We appreciate you leaving us a review with 5-stars if you enjoy these podcasts.

For more information about Pardes, visit our website www.pardes.org.il.

Credits

Yiscah Smith - Faculty Host and interviewee

Rabbi Ari Ze'ev Schwartz – Interviewer

Adam Titcher – Executive Producer and Director of Digital Media

This class lays the groundwork for understanding the emergence of the Chassidic movement in Eastern Europe in the late 18th century.

This lecture is part of the 5780 Pardes Community Education Spring session, January 12, 2020 - March 26, 2020.

If you are interested in listening to more from Rav Mike, or you want to help him continue making Jewish history a relevant story, visit elmad.pardes.org/ravmike.

If you enjoyed what you just heard please give us a 5-star review on iTunes or wherever you download our podcasts today. For more information about Pardes Community Education classes, visit the main Pardes website www.pardes.org.il/ce.

Credits:

Rav Mike Feuer – Pardes Faculty and Host

Adam Titcher - Executive Producer

The Pardes Center for Jewish Educators is proud to produce this podcast series to support and inspire tefilah education. Rabbi Zvi Hirschfield, Pardes faculty member, leads a panel of veteran educators in an invigorating discussion of how to make prayer relevant to young people. Using a menu of tefilah goals, created as part of the Pardes Tefilah Education Initiative, each educator explores each episode’s prayer through a lens of either Connecting to God, Developing a Sense of Jewish Community, or Cultivating Personal Growth.

For our database of tefilah resources and to learn more about tefilah goals go to tefilah.pardes.org. For more great podcasts visit elmad.pardes.org.

In our first episode, Zvi Hirschfield is joined by PCJE Director Aviva Lauer Golbert and PCJE Director of Digital Content Reuven Margrett as they explore the Shema - Judaism’s most well-known expression of faith - through the perspectives of connecting to community, God, and personal development in order to create more meaningful and engaging tefilah experiences for young people.

In this episode: Rabbi Zvi Hirschfield, Aviva Lauer Golbert and Rabbi Reuven Margrett.

Creative Producer: Reuven Margrett

Executive Producer: Adam Titcher

Today, citizens of Israel go to the polls in their third attempt to elect a Prime Minister. Tomorrow, 14 US States hold presidential primaries. Pardes Faculty Member Rabbi Dr. Meesh Hammer-Kossoy shares with us a teaching about the balance of power, rule of law and our communal responsibility to form strong governments.

Credits:

Special Message Host: Rabbi Dr. Meesh Hammer-Kossoy

Executive Producer: Adam Titcher

Today, citizens of Israel go to the polls in their third attempt to elect a Prime Minister. While Pardes does not endorse political parties, we celebrate those in our community who exercise leadership on behalf of the Jewish People. Karen Feuer, a member of the Pardes Staff, shares with us why she is running for Knesset.

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משנה תורה, הלכות עבודה זרה וחוקות הגויים ט׳:ח׳

(ח) כְּשֵׁם שֶׁאֵין מוֹכְרִין לְעוֹבֵד כּוֹכָבִים דְּבָרִים שֶׁמַּחֲזִיקִין בָּהֶן יְדֵיהֶן לַעֲבוֹדַת כּוֹכָבִים כָּךְ אֵין מוֹכְרִין לָהֶם דָּבָר שֶׁיֵּשׁ בּוֹ נֵזֶק לָרַבִּים כְּגוֹן דֻּבִּים וַאֲרָיוֹת וּכְלֵי זַיִן וּכְבָלִים וְשַׁלְשְׁלָאוֹת. וְאֵין מַשְׁחִיזִין לָהֶם אֶת הַזַּיִן. וְכָל שֶׁאָסוּר לְמָכְרוֹ לְעוֹבֵד כּוֹכָבִים אָסוּר לְמָכְרוֹ לְיִשְׂרָאֵל הֶחָשׁוּד לִמְכֹּר לְעוֹבֵד כּוֹכָבִים. וְכֵן אָסוּר לִמְכֹּר כְּלֵי נֵזֶק לְיִשְׂרָאֵל לִסְטִים:

Mishneh Torah, Foreign Worship and Customs of the Nations 9:8

(8) Even as it is forbidden to sell to idolaters things which uphold their hands to idolatry so it is forbidden to sell them things wherein there is a menace to the public, for instance, bears, lions, weapons, iron fetters, and chains; it is likewise forbidden to sharpen their weapons for them. And, everything which is forbidden to sell to an idolater is also forbidden to sell to an Israelite who is under suspicion that he might resell it to an idolater. It is likewise forbidden to sell instruments of harm to robbers who profess to be Israelites.8Ibid. 15a–16b.

 

Credits:

Special Message Host: Karen Feuer

Executive Producer: Adam Titcher

The Pardes Center for Jewish Educators is proud to produce this podcast series to support and inspire tefilah education. Rabbi Zvi Hirschfield, Pardes faculty member, leads a panel of veteran educators in an invigorating discussion of how to make prayer relevant to young people. Using a menu of tefilah goals, created as part of the Pardes Tefilah Education Initiative, each educator explores each episode’s prayer through a lens of either Connecting to God, Developing a Sense of Jewish Community, or Cultivating Personal Growth.

In this introduction episode, Zvi Hirschfield, is joined by Aviva Lauer Golbert, Director of PCJE, and Reuven Margrett, PCJE Director of Digital Content, as they introduce this podcast series and outline the issues, challenges, and potential goals of tefilah education. To receive this podcast weekly you need to be subscribed to Pardes Live and Mini-Series podcast channel. Subscribe today using iTunes, Android or wherever you download your podcasts.

In this episode: Rabbi Zvi Hirschfield, Aviva Lauer Golbert and Rabbi Reuven Margrett.

Creative Producer: Reuven Margrett

Executive Producer: Adam Titcher

Depending on who you ask Spinoza was either a dangerous heretic, the founder of modern thought - or both. Whichever side you take, this class will teach you why we might better call Baruch Spinoza the first secular Jew.

This lecture is part of the 5780 Pardes Community Education Spring session, January 12, 2020 - March 26, 2020.

If you are interested in listening to more from Rav Mike, or you want to help him continue making Jewish history a relevant story, visit elmad.pardes.org/ravmike.

If you enjoyed what you just heard please give us a 5-star review on iTunes or wherever you download our podcasts today. For more information about Pardes Community Education classes, visit the main Pardes website www.pardes.org.il/ce.

Credits:

Rav Mike Feuer – Pardes Faculty and Host

Adam Titcher - Executive Producer

This class explores the ongoing story of the Sabbatean movement and its role in eroding rabbinic authority in the early modern era. Along with an analysis of historical factors, hear the story of Sabbatean prophet Avraham Cardoso, R' Yehudah Hachasid and the Ramchal.

This lecture is part of the 5780 Pardes Community Education Spring session, January 12, 2020 - March 26, 2020.

If you are interested in listening to more from Rav Mike, or you want to help him continue making Jewish history a relevant story, visit elmad.pardes.org/ravmike.

If you enjoyed what you just heard please give us a 5-star review on iTunes or wherever you download our podcasts today. For more information about Pardes Community Education classes, visit the main Pardes website www.pardes.org.il/ce.

Credits:

Rav Mike Feuer – Pardes Faculty and Host

Adam Titcher - Executive Producer

The Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies Presents:

The Sidney and Miriam Brettler Memorial Series 5780

Women in the Wilderness: Four Narratives of Spiritual Power with Dr. Avivah Zornberg

Through midrashic and hasidic readings as well as psychoanalytic approaches

we will encounter the spiritual resistance of our biblical heroines in situations of tension.

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22 January 2020

Miriam against Moses: "Sing-Now!-to God!" - Listen to the Podcast.

29 January 2020

Daughters of Zelophchad: "To be or not to be" - Listen to the Podcast.

5 February 2020

Esther: "Mere Anarchy is Loosed Upon the World" - Listen to the Podcast.

12 February 2020

Becoming Ruth: "And I am a Stranger"

Credits:

Dr. Avivah Zornberg - Lecturer

Adam Titcher - Executive Producer