Ta Shma

Avital Hochstein. Yosef kept his identity hidden from his brothers for a long time, requiring a lot of resilience and fortitude on his part. These emotions are expressed in two ways in the text: crying and self-restraint (va-yitapak). A close reading of the text teaches that there is an ongoing process moving from crying to crying and restraint, and finally onto a forging of restraint that is expressed through crying. Why does Yosef expose his identity in our parashah and stop restraining himself?

Dena Weiss. In celebration of 10 Years of Mechon Hadar, the extended Hadar community will be learning all of Pirkei Avot together at a pace of 3-5 mishnayot a week, concluding with a Siyyum Celebration on March 2, 2017 and a National Shabbaton March 3-5, 2017. Each podcast includes the full text, a translation with explanations, and a short Dvar Torah inspired by that week's mishnayot.

Shai Held and Michael Ruse. At Hadar we aim to ignite a much-needed Jewish conversation about God. Towards that end, we proudly present a provocative new series of public lectures and dialogues-- about faith and doubt in light of science; about whether and how the idea of a God who loves can still make sense in the modern world; about Israelis and their (often understated) quest for God; and about what it means to believe in God (tentatively, sometimes tenuously) in a broken world. This lecture, recorded live on November 3, 2016, was the first of four parts in our Fall 2016 series, Faith and Doubt in the Modern World. The series was presented in partnership with the Samuel Bronfman Foundation in memory of Edgar Bronfman, who struggled with questions of faith and doubt for much of his life, and whose love of and commitment to Torah were an inspiration to many.

דמויות שונות פעמים רבות מייצגות קולות שונים, קולות שכולם נשמרים במקהלת המסורת היהודית על שלל גווניה ובתוך המקורות עצמם. דמויות אלו פשוט באופן התנהלותן מייצגות עמדה אחרת, אפשרות שלא מיושמת על ידי הגיבורים, וכך בעדינות ובמסירות מבקרות אותם. האיש העדולמי, חירה, הוא דמות שכזו.

Avital Hochstein. The story of Tamar and Yehudah opens with a fairly straightforward introduction, “at that time Yehudah departed from his brothers and inclined towards a man from Adulam, and his name was Hirah” (Bereishit 38:1). Why are we told about this man? What is his significance to the story we are about to read?

בלבה של פרשתנו, מתואר מאבק בין 'איש' לבין יעקב, מאבק תמוה שאותו מבין יעקב בדיעבד כמפגש

עם אלוהים

Avital Hochstein. At the heart of our parashah, we are presented with the arresting scene of Ya’akov wrestling with an unidentified “man.” This puzzling scene is understood by Ya’akov in hindsight as an encounter with God.

Dena Weiss. In celebration of 10 Years of Mechon Hadar, the extended Hadar community will be learning all of Pirkei Avot together at a pace of 3-5 mishnayot a week, concluding with a Siyyum Celebration on March 2, 2017. Each podcast includes the full text, a translation with explanations, and a short Dvar Torah inspired by that week's mishnayot.

Dena Weiss. In celebration of 10 Years of Mechon Hadar, the extended Hadar community will be learning all of Pirkei Avot together at a pace of 3-5 mishnayot a week, concluding with a Siyyum Celebration on March 2, 2017. Each podcast includes the full text, a translation with explanations, and a short Dvar Torah inspired by that week's mishnayot.

פרשת תולדות נותנת לנו הצצה לתוך דמותו המורכבת של יצחק, פעם דמות המונעת מקשרים?הפסוקים הפותחים את פרשת "ויצא" מנסחים תשובה לשאלה העקרונית—מהי תפילה? מה המשמעות שלה עבור האדם המתפלל, ויותר מזה—באיזה אופן היא משפיעה על האל שאליו היא מופנית