Torah & Tech: Complicated Technological Systems
What happens when it is no longer obvious how a technology works? To what degree are rabbis responsible to fully understand the technologica...
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Hadar Campus Scholars
This podcast is associated with the Hadar Campus Scholars, which is a program of Mechon Hadar, an egalitarian, non-denominational yeshiva in New York City.
Episodes
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Torah & Tech: A Formal Invitation
This is a short invitation to this series of classes, taught by David Zvi Kalman at Penn Hillel. It explains the rationale behind the class...
How to Prep and Deliver a Great Dvar Torah (sources in notes)
This class was co-taught by David Zvi Kalman and Rabbi Jonathan Shulman on April 24, 2014. davidzvi.com/onhalakhah/how_to_dvar_torah_sources...
God through Anger (sources in notes)
This class lays out several ways in which it is possible to have a relationship with God based in feelings of anger and investigates why one...
God Is: A Person (sources in notes)
A survey of two major ways in which Jewish sources have related to God as being a person. This class was originally delivered on Mar. 3, 201...
God Is: Jewish (sources in notes)
This class was originally delivered on Feb. 24, 2014. The topic was notions of God in Judaism where God is understood as having some kind of...
Introduction to "God Is"
This is a short statement explaning the structure of the class.
On Halakhah: How does Halakhah deal with new technologies? (sources in notes)
This class is part of the second version of the series. It uses rabbinic responses to new technologies (e.g. electricity,lab-grown meat, Jew...
On Halakhah: Finding a Lost God in Halakhah (sources in notes)
This class is an attempt to provide new ways of thinking about God that do not clash with the way of thinking about God that we have so far...
On Halakhah: Taking Social Justice Halakhah Seriously (sources in notes)
This class is an attempt to reconcile issues of social justice with traditional modes of halakhic interpretations. The class was given on Ap...
On Halakhah: Halakhah about Sex - What Kind of Halakhah is it? (sources in notes)
This lecture is an attempt to think about Jewish law as occupying a number of distinct genres, and to think about the halakhot of sexuality...
Parshanut Class: Parashat Tzav
Weekly class on commentaries on the weekly Torah portion, with a focus on traditional medieval commentators (ex. Rashi, Ramban), along with...
On Halakhah: A (Satisfying) Reconciliation of Halakhah and Homosexuality (sources in notes)
This class attempts to cover a wide variety of Orthodox and Conservative approaches to Halakhah and Homosexuality, include those of Rabbis S...
Z'vachim 3:2
This podcast is associated with the Hadar Campus Scholars, which is a program of Mechon Hadar, an egalitarian, non-denominational yeshiva in...
Chaye Adam 24:13
Rules about forgetting to say v'ten tal u'matar.
Z'vachim 3:1
This podcast is associated with the Hadar Campus Scholars, which is a program of Mechon Hadar, an egalitarian, non-denominational yeshiva in...
Chaye Adam 11-12
Rules of the 4th and 9th blessings of the Amidah
On Halakhah: Can Women Lead All Parts of Communal Prayer? (sources in notes)
This is part of the *On Halakhah* series. It was delivered on February 27, 2013 at Penn by David Zvi Kalman. It addresses some of the halakh...
Z'vachim 2:5
This podcast is associated with the Hadar Campus Scholars, which is a program of Mechon Hadar, an egalitarian, non-denominational yeshiva in...
Chaye Adam 24:9-10
Finishing up the rules of mashiv ha'ruach, plus the third blessing of the amidah.