Kohelet, Week 9b: A Time for Everything, Part 1 - Jun 13, 2023 - Starting to analyze Chapter 3, with its famous poem of "A time to..." What is its message?

Parshah Questions: Behaalotcha 5783 - Yitro's Eyes - Jun 8, 2023 - A quick look at questions on the parshah. Parshat Behaalotcha: Why does Moshe value Yitro's eyes? Why does it matter that Yitro travelled with us and knew our camp? Multiple approaches, including an eye-opening idea from the Noam Elimelech.

Giants Of #24b: The Rif, Part 1 - Jun 8, 2023 - Introduction to Rabbi Yitzchak Alfasi, the Rif: The Jews of Morocco, and the Rif's biography. Note: The history is more overview than granular, and certainly not academic.

Giants Of #24a: Rabbeinu Tam - Jun 8, 2023 - A brief biography, and a bit about his impact on understanding gemara and the development of halachah. Note: The history is more overview than granular, and certainly not academic.

Shemuel #162 - Shemuel II 1:13-26 - Executioner and Eulogizer - Jun 8, 2023 - Dovid haMelech executes the self-professed murderer of Shaul HaMelech - but why? And learning Dovid's eulogy for Shaul and Yehonatan. Note: This is the last in our series for at least a few months.

Kohelet, Week 8b: Simchah and Schok, Part 1 - Jun 6, 2023 - What are שמחה and שחוק? When are they valuable, and when are they worthless, or worse?

Kohelet, Week 8a: Ruach Raah and Kaas: Frustrated by Futility - Jun 6, 2023 - Inasmuch as the world is full of hevel and amal - futility and struggle - a natural human reaction is ruach raah and kaas, frustration. This includes frustration with ourselves and frustration with our struggles - but there can be productive frustration, too.

Legal Ethics: Artificial Intelligence and the Practice of Law - Jun 5, 2023 - Issues which come up when using AI-driven tools in practicing law. A survey of issues related to: 1) The range of such tools available already, 2) Informing the client when using such tools, 3) Use of client information in training an AI, 4) Violation of intellectual property rights in training data or in the product generated by an AI, and 5) Liability for AI error.

Shemuel #161a - Concluding Questions from Shemuel I - Jun 1, 2023 - Two remaining questions: 1) Was Michal married to Dovid or Palti or both or neither? 2) How do we understand all of the death in Shemuel, and Tanach?

Shemuel #161b - Shemuel II 1:1-16 - The Murder of Shaul? - Jun 1, 2023 - Did the Amalekite (convert) kill Shaul? How could Shaul instruct him to do it?