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18Forty Podcast
18Forty Podcast
17 SEP 2024 · This series is sponsored by Mira and Daniel Stokar, and this episode is sponsored by https://dailygiving.org/.
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we talk to Yussie Zakutinsky, rabbi of K’hal Mevakshei Hashem in Lawrence, New York, about his vision for a Judaism that unites the entire Jewish People—no matter how wide the gaps between us.
Since October 7, of the many schisms within the Jewish People, some have mended while others are torn anew. As a nation, we have much further to go. In this episode, we discuss:
- How can we see the divinity in Jews with whom we profoundly disagree?
- What do we mean when we say “the entirety of the Jewish People is an expression of God”?
- How can we rescue the divinity within ourselves and within one another?
Tune in to hear a conversation about, as the Baal Shem Tov described it, vanquishing the dragon and redeeming the princess—i.e., elevating the good in all the Jewish People.
Interview begins at 20:27.
Rabbi Yussie Zakutinsky is a rabbi and spiritual leader. He is the rabbi of K’hal Mevakshei Hashem in Lawrence, New York, and is a sought-after lecturer and leader of spiritual happenings.
References:
https://www.sefaria.org/Mesillat_Yesharim?tab=contents by Moses Chaim Luzzatto
https://www.sefaria.org/Derekh_Hashem?tab=contents by Moses Chaim Luzzatto
https://www.sefaria.org/Avodah_Zarah.9a?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en
http://rabbiywilk.com
https://www.sefaria.org/Genesis.12.5?ven=Tanakh:_The_Holy_Scriptures,_published_by_JPS&lang=bi&with=Translations&lang2=en
18Forty Podcast: “https://18forty.org/podcast/rabbi-yy-jacobson-how-did-the-rebbe-revolutionize-judaism/”
Works of https://www.sefaria.org/texts/Jewish%20Thought/Modern/Rav%20Kook
Works of https://www.sefaria.org/texts/Chasidut/R'%20Tzadok%20HaKohen
https://www.sefaria.org/Divrei_Soferim.16?ven=Sefaria_Community_Translation&lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en
https://www.amazon.com/Pachad-Yitzchok-Selected-MaAmarim-Shabbos/dp/142264071X by Rav Yitzchok Hutner
10 SEP 2024 · This series is sponsored by Mira and Daniel Stokar, and this episode is sponsored by https://dailygiving.org/.
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we talk to Joshua Leifer and Shaindy Ort, married progressive activists who are reembracing traditional Jewish life.
Joshua and Shaindy grew up in Conservative and Yeshivish communities, respectively, but struggled to find a Jewish community as they joined left-wing circles, specifically those highly critical of Israel.
After October 7, Joshua resigned from the anti-Zionist magazine Jewish Currents, and in August, he published https://www.amazon.com/Tablets-Shattered-American-Jewish-Century/dp/0593187180, which made headlines after a Brooklyn bookstore canceled Joshua’s planned talk because it included a Zionist rabbi. In this episode we discuss:
- Has October 7 changed anything for progressive Jews highly critical of Israel?
- Why do left-wing circles struggle to maintain engaged Jewish life?
- What differentiates the Israeli left from the American left?
Tune in to hear a conversation about return and renewal for progressive Jews seeking a life of traditional Jewishness.
Interview begins at 16:44.
Joshua Leifer is a journalist, editor, and translator. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, and elsewhere, and he is the author of the new book Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life.
Shaindy Ort-Leifer is an attorney who works in the fields of strategic litigation and international law.
Joshua and Shaindy are married.
References:
https://www.sefaria.org/Orot_HaTeshuvah?tab=contents by Abraham Isaac HaCohen Kook
https://www.amazon.com/Tablets-Shattered-American-Jewish-Century/dp/0593187180 by Joshua Leifer
https://www.sefaria.org/Siddur_Sefard%2C_Upon_Arising%2C_Upon_Entering_Synagogue.1?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en
https://www.amazon.com/Jew-Vs-Struggle-American-Jewry/dp/1416578005 by Samuel G. Freedman
https://www.amazon.com/After-Virtue-Study-Moral-Theory/dp/0268035040 by Alasdair MacIntyre
https://www.amazon.com/Hirsch-Haggadah-Samson-R/dp/0873064615 by Samson R. Hirsch
https://www.sefaria.org/Arukh_HaShulchan?tab=contents by Yechiel Michel Epstein
https://www.sefaria.org/Kitzur_Shulchan_Arukh?tab=contents by Shlomo Ganzfried
https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy?tab=contents
3 SEP 2024 · This episode is sponsored by Nishmat, the Jeanie Schottenstein Center for Advanced Torah Study for Women, whose Online Beit Midrash returns on Sept. 8. Women of all backgrounds can learn Talmud, Tanach, Halacha, and more from the comfort of home. For a full class schedule and registration, go https://nishmat.net/online-beit-midrash/.
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we talk to historian and professor Pawel Maciejko about the false messiah Sabbatai Zevi, Sabbateanism, and the roots of Jewish secularism.
Gershom Scholem, the scholar of Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism, saw a connection between the 17th-century messianic movement of Sabbateanism and the later movement of Jewish secularism. Was he right? In this episode we discuss:
- What was the impact of Sabbateanism after its messianic fervor died down?
- How can studying Jewish history deepen one’s connection with Judaism?
- What is Frankism, and why is it a fascination of present-day antisemitic conspiracy theorists?
Tune in to hear a conversation about what the rupture from the Sabbatean movement can teach us about the wide range of Jewish identities we see today.
Interview begins at 17:05.
Pawel Maciejko is an associate professor of history and Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Chair in Classical Jewish Religion, Thought, and Culture at Johns Hopkins University. Between 2005 and 2016 he taught at the Department of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His first book, The Mixed Multitude: Jacob Frank and the Frankist Movement, 1755–1816, was awarded the Salo Baron Prize by the American Academy of Jewish Research and the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award by the Association for Jewish Studies.
References:
https://www.amazon.com/Not-Heavens-Tradition-Secular-Thought/dp/0691168040 by David Biale
https://www.amazon.com/Makers-Jewish-Modernity-Thinkers-Artists/dp/0691164231 edited by Jacques Picard, Jacques Revel, Michael P. Steinberg, and Idith Zertal
“https://www.commentary.org/articles/gershom-scholem/the-holiness-of-sin/” by Gershom Scholem
https://www.sefaria.org/Mishnah_Chagigah.2.1?ven=The_Mishna_with_Obadiah_Bartenura_by_Rabbi_Shraga_Silverstein&lang=bi
https://www.sefaria.org/Ezekiel.1?lang=bi
https://brill.com/display/book/edcoll/9789004460942/BP000020.xml?language=en by Elliot R. Wolfson
https://www.amazon.com/Sabbatian-Heresy-Mysticism-Messianism-Modernity/dp/1512600520 edited by Pawel Maciejko
https://www.amazon.com/Mixed-Multitude-Frankist-Movement-1755-1816/dp/0812223438 by Pawel Maciejko
“https://www.lifeisasacredtext.com/guest-post-the-messianic-feminism/#:~:text=As%20far%20as%20I%20can,the%20inequality%20between%20the%20sexes.” by Jericho Vincent
https://www.amazon.com/Repentance-Repair-Making-Amends-Unapologetic/dp/0807010510 by Danya Ruttenberg
“https://www.academia.edu/30194718/A_Portrait_of_the_Kabbalist_as_a_Young_Man_Count_Joseph_Carl_Emmanuel_Waldstein_and_His_Retinue” by Pawel Maciejko
“https://www.academia.edu/771132/Gershom_Scholem_s_dialectic_of_Jewish_history_the_case_of_Sabbatianism” by Pawel Maciejko
Seforimchatter’s https://seforimchatter.com/category/sabbatai-zevi/
11 AUG 2024 · In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we speak to the Perez family, whose son Daniel, Hashem yikkom damo, was killed defending Israel and the Jewish People on October 7.
We’re joined by Daniel’s father, Doron; his mother, Shelley; and his siblings, Shira, Adina, and Yonatan, to hear about Daniel’s courageous life and the unfathomable loss endured by his family and the Jewish People. In this episode we discuss:
- What does living a life of sanctity and purpose mean, especially in the face of terror and tragedy?
- How did Daniel’s siblings cope with the loss of their beloved brother?
- Amid the absence of loss, how can we find the presence of purpose?
Tune in to hear a conversation about the clarity of mission that might help us heal from the trauma of October 7.
Interview begins at 28:00.
References:
https://www.sefaria.org/Jerusalem_Talmud_Berakhot.2.4.1?lang=bi&with=Translations&lang2=en
https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.13.1?ven=Tanakh:_The_Holy_Scriptures,_published_by_JPS&lang=bi&with=Translations&lang2=en
https://www.shopeichlers.com/products/shuvi-vnechze-al-htorah/52685 by Rabbi Moshe Shapiro
https://www.sefaria.org/Peri_Tzadik?tab=contents by Rav Tzadok HaKohen of Lublin
https://www.sefaria.org/Jerusalem_Talmud_Berakhot.1.1.1?lang=bi
https://www.sefaria.org/Psalms.121?ven=Tanakh:_The_Holy_Scriptures,_published_by_JPS&lang=bi
“https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6TXPNybrmk” by Kodaline
https://www.sefaria.org/Ezekiel.16.6?ven=Tanakh:_The_Holy_Scriptures,_published_by_JPS&lang=bi&with=Translations&lang2=en
https://bayitineverybayit.weebly.com/
6 AUG 2024 · We're taking a week off from our main podcast, but we want to share with you an episode of our new podcast, https://18forty.org/topics/18-questions-40-israeli-thinkers-pod/https://18forty.org/topics/18-questions-40-israeli-thinkers-pod/ Subscribe to on https://open.spotify.com/show/4wvHoRh4fOhCYobNRH7xOM?si=d5a8f96636134d31 or https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/18-questions-40-israeli-thinkers/id1752742435 to catch the latest episode every Monday.
The Israeli government’s draft of Haredi men is no simple matter—but Yehoshua Pfeffer has some ideas for moving forward.
Rabbi Yehoshua Pfeffer is a Haredi social thinker and activist intimately involved in Haredi affairs. He heads the Iyun Institute—which operates programs and publications in the Haredi space—is the founding editor of Tzarich Iyun journal, and serves on the executive board of Netzah Yehuda, which serves Haredi soldiers in the IDF.
While also teaching as a professor at Hebrew University’s law school, he is the rabbi of Ohr Chadash in Ramot Bet, Jerusalem. Yehoshua’s life is guided by his convictions.
Now, he sits down with us to answer 18 questions on Israel, including the Haredi draft, Israel as a religious state, Messianism, and so much more.
This interview was held on July 2.
Here are our 18 questions:
- As an Israeli, and as a Jew, how are you feeling at this moment in Israeli history?
- What has been Israel’s greatest success and greatest mistake in its war against Hamas?
- What do you look for in deciding which Knesset party to vote for?
- Which is more important for Israel: Judaism or democracy?
- Should Israel be a religious state?
- Do you think the State of Israel is part of the final redemption?
- Is Messianism helpful or harmful to Israel?
- Should Israel treat its Jewish and non-Jewish citizens the same?
- Should all Israelis serve in the army?
- Now that Israel already exists, what is the purpose of Zionism?
- Is opposing Zionism inherently antisemitic?
- If you were making the case for Israel, where would you begin?
- Can questioning the actions of Israel’s government and army — even in the context of this war — be a valid form of love and patriotism?
- What do you think is the most legitimate criticism leveled against Israel today?
- Do you think peace between Israelis and Palestinians will happen within your lifetime?
- Are political and religious divides a major problem in Israeli society?
- Where do you identify on Israel’s political and religious spectrum, and do you have friends on the “other side”?
- Do you have more hope or fear for Israel and the Jewish People?
30 JUL 2024 · In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we talk to Eli Rubin—a scholar, Lubavitcher Hasid, and author of the forthcoming book https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=37245—about life’s big cosmic questions.
Chabad and the Rebbe are so ubiquitous in Jewish life that we tend to overlook Chabad’s underlying philosophy. Here, we take the time to look under the hood of the Mitzvah Tank. In this episode we discuss:
- At its core, what is Hasidism about, and how did the Rebbe implement these essentials in a new time and a new land?
- What should we picture when we imagine moshiach?
- Has Chabad splintered off from mainstream Judaism the way some have feared?
Tune in to hear a conversation about what it means to want moshiach now.
Interview begins at 11:27.
Eli Rubin, a contributing editor at Chabad.org, is the author of https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=37245 (forthcoming from Stanford University Press). He was a co-author of https://www.chabad.org/6489369 (Herder and Herder, 2019). He studied Chassidic literature and Jewish Law at the Rabbinical College of America and at Yeshivot in the UK, the US and Australia, and received his PhD from the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London.
References:
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=37245 by Eli Rubin
https://www.chabad.org/6489369 by Philip Wexler, Eli Rubin, and Michael Wexler
18Forty Podcast: “https://18forty.org/podcast/eli-rubin/”
https://www.sefaria.org/Tanya%2C_Part_I%3B_Likkutei_Amarim.36.1?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en
https://www.sefaria.org/Tanya%2C_Part_I%3B_Likkutei_Amarim.36.1?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en
https://www.amazon.com/Open-Secret-Postmessianic-Messianism-Schneerson/dp/0231146302 by Elliot R. Wolfson
https://www.sefaria.org/Mishneh_Torah%2C_Kings_and_Wars.12.1?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en
https://www.sefaria.org/Eruvin.13b.1?ven=William_Davidson_Edition_-_English&lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en
https://www.amazon.com/Rebbe-Messiah-Scandal-Orthodox-Indifference/dp/1904113753/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=bVgik&content-id=amzn1.sym.f911c8db-3a2b-4b3e-952f-b80fdcee83f4&pf_rd_p=f911c8db-3a2b-4b3e-952f-b80fdcee83f4&pf_rd_r=141-1653680-7052362&pd_rd_wg=69vLQ&pd_rd_r=315638c1-c14d-4e90-afbd-de49afe6ff30&ref_=aufs_ap_sc_dsk by David Berger
https://www.amazon.com/Messiah-problem-scandal-reckless-indiscrimination/dp/B007HGK5HS/ref=sr_1_2?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.PigqT26hTCaHxtQZMgC3MRYfV2xGX4NN3X4rpXv7L2u_xiEkKwajMakalL4Gvv3q.gX7nd0wEAvZKG4KF__VbczRVOdWg9a3WUdDdsIEdYBY&dib_tag=se&qid=1722298696&refinements=p_27%3AChaim+Rapoport&s=books&sr=1-2 by Chaim Rapoport
https://www.chabad.org/library/tanya/tanya_cdo/aid/7972/jewish/Epistle-27.htm
https://korenpub.com/products/engaging-the-essence by Rabbi Dr. Yosef Bronstein
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In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we talk to Yosef Bronstein—a rabbi, writer, and scholar—about the philosophy of Chabad and the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
For much of the Jewish world, the Chabad movement plays a part in our lives, but it’s not necessarily something we understand deeply. Rabbi Bronstein, author of the newly published https://korenpub.com/products/engaging-the-essence (Koren), helps us fix that. In this episode we discuss:
- What draws a Litvak to the Torah of the Lubavitcher Rebbe?
- What were the Rebbe’s essential innovations of Judaism?
- How might a messianic consciousness enhance our Torah lives?
Tune in to hear a conversation about what Orthodox Jews outside of the Lubavitch community can learn from Chabad.
Interview begins at 15:33
Yosef Bronstein received rabbinic ordination and a PhD in Talmudic Studies from Yeshiva University. He is the Rosh Bet Midrash of Machon Zimrat Ha’aretz, a community learning center and rabbinical training program in Efrat, Israel, and also teaches Jewish philosophy at Yeshiva University’s Isaac Breuer College. Rabbi Dr. Bronstein is a beloved lecturer, writer, and teacher on topics of Jewish thought, and is the author of https://www.amazon.com/Authority-Divine-Law-Tannaitic-Midrash/dp/B0CL6BCX47 and https://korenpub.com/products/engaging-the-essence.
References:
https://korenpub.com/products/engaging-the-essence by Rabbi Dr. Yosef Bronstein
https://www.sefaria.org/Tanya?tab=contents
https://korenpub.com/products/the-steinsaltz-tanya-three-volume-set
https://www.chabad.org/library/tanya/tanya_cdo/aid/6237/jewish/Lessons-in-Tanya.htm
https://www.chabad.org/therebbe/article_cdo/aid/294283/jewish/Heaven-on-Earth.htm by Faitel Levin
https://www.amazon.com/Halakhic-Man-Rabbi-Joseph-Soloveitchik/dp/0827603975 by Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik
18Forty Podcast: https://18forty.org/podcast/yosef-bronstein-rav-tzadok-rav-kook-on-jewish-history/
https://www.sefaria.org/Pirkei_Avot.1?ven=Mishnah_Yomit_by_Dr._Joshua_Kulp&lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en
https://www.sefaria.org/Kuzari?tab=contents
https://www.sefaria.org/texts/Halakhah/Mishneh%20Torah
https://www.amazon.com/Open-Secret-Postmessianic-Messianism-Schneerson/dp/0231146302 by Elliot R. Wolfson
https://www.amazon.com/Rebbe-Messiah-Scandal-Orthodox-Indifference/dp/1904113753/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=bVgik&content-id=amzn1.sym.f911c8db-3a2b-4b3e-952f-b80fdcee83f4&pf_rd_p=f911c8db-3a2b-4b3e-952f-b80fdcee83f4&pf_rd_r=141-1653680-7052362&pd_rd_wg=69vLQ&pd_rd_r=315638c1-c14d-4e90-afbd-de49afe6ff30&ref_=aufs_ap_sc_dsk by David Berger
https://www.chabad.org/therebbe/article_cdo/aid/2468546/jewish/Sichos-in-English.htm
“https://thelehrhaus.com/scholarship/bittul-torah-or-a-taste-of-the-world-to-come-fathers-and-young-children/” by Yosef Bronstein
16 JUL 2024 · In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we talk to Chava Green—an emerging scholar who wrote her doctoral dissertation on “the Hasidic face of feminism”—about how the Lubavitcher Rebbe infused American sensibilities with mystical sensitivities, paying particular attention to the role of women.
Some stereotype mysticism as something out of this world. But the Lubavitcher Rebbe showed us the importance of having mysticism inform our everyday lives, emphasizing the cosmic impact of the mitzvos done by men, women, and children. In this episode we discuss:
- Was the Rebbe really “the biggest feminist”?
- How did the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s mysticism translate to the lived experience of his followers?
- How did Green come to be a self-identified Hasidic feminist?
Tune in to hear a conversation about how both the Jewish and feminist worlds contain a wider range of ideas than one might expect.
Interview begins at 8:55.
Chava Green is a writer, teacher, and perpetual student. After graduating with her B.A. in Women’s and Gender Studies, she attended Mayanot Women’s Program in Jerusalem and Machon Alta in Tzfat. She is currently pursuing a doctorate in Jewish studies at Emory University and lives with her family in Morristown, New Jersey. Her work considers the relationship between Chabad teachings and feminism.
References:
https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Heretics-Digital-Princeton-Technology/dp/069116990X by Ayala Fader
https://www.amazon.com/Mitzvah-Girls-Bringing-Generation-Brooklyn/dp/0691139172 by Ayala Fader
https://www.amazon.com/Mystics-Mavericks-Merrymakers-Intimate-Journey/dp/0814751970 by Stephanie Wellen Levine
https://www.amazon.com/Social-Vision-Lubavitcher-Transformative-Traditions/dp/0824550382 by Philip Wexler
https://www.chabad.org/search/keyword_cdo/kid/22182/jewish/Chava-Green.htm
9 JUL 2024 · In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we talk to renowned Chabad speaker Rabbi YY Jacobson about Chassidus, Chabad, and the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
In honor the Rebbe’s 30th yahrtzeit, YY Jacobson helps us explore the purpose of Creation, our role in the world, and how the soul of the universe relates to the soul of the human being. In this episode we discuss:
- What is Hasidic thought, and what differentiates it from Kabbalah?
- How did Jewish emancipation and integration lead to Jews turning inward and focusing on the soul and God’s Presence in the world?
- What was the Rebbe’s understanding of messianism and Zionism, and what might it mean for how we live our lives?
Tune in to hear a conversation about how the Rebbe brought oneness to the Jewish People during some of our most turbulent times.
Interview begins at 6:18.
Rabbi YY Jacobson, founder and dean of TheYeshiva.net, is a popular teacher of Chabad Chassidus. Having been an “oral scribe” of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Jacobson was a close follower of the Rebbe in the last stages of the Rebbe’s life. Rabbi Jacobson has additionally been the editor-in-chief of The Algemeiner Journal and the spiritual leader of Congregation Bais Shmuel.
References:
https://www.chabad.org/library/tanya/tanya_cdo/aid/1028862/jewish/Tanya.htm
https://www.sefaria.org/Mishneh_Torah%2C_Kings_and_Wars.11.1?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en
https://www.sefaria.org/texts/Halakhah/Shulchan%20Arukh
https://www.sefaria.org/Shulchan_Arukh_HaRav?tab=contents
https://www.sefaria.org/Rashi_on_Genesis.1.1.1?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en
https://www.chabad.org/therebbe/article_cdo/aid/68159/jewish/Likkutei-Sichot-in-English.htm
https://www.amazon.com/Toward-Meaningful-Life-New-Schneerson/dp/0060732784 by Simon Jacobson
https://www.amazon.com/Torah-Studies-Menachem-Mendel-Schneerson/dp/0826604935 by Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson and Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
https://www.amazon.com/Turning-Judaism-Outwards-Biography-Schneerson/dp/1934152366 by Chaim Miller
https://www.amazon.com/Rebbe-Teachings-Menachem-Schneerson-Influential/dp/0062318985/ref=pd_lpo_sccl_1/141-1653680-7052362?pd_rd_w=TH3p1&content-id=amzn1.sym.4c8c52db-06f8-4e42-8e56-912796f2ea6c&pf_rd_p=4c8c52db-06f8-4e42-8e56-912796f2ea6c&pf_rd_r=08CJ3FWT9JSQ00ZQB4X0&pd_rd_wg=nmlv8&pd_rd_r=824cb831-9014-44a9-ba43-164106ae67d8&pd_rd_i=0062318985&psc=1 by Joseph Telushkin
2 JUL 2024 · This series is sponsored by Joel and Lynn Mael in memory of Estelle and Nysen Mael.
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we follow up with Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch to break down the anti-Zionist crisis facing the Reform Movement.
As young Jews feel increasingly disconnected from the Jewish People, America’s non-Orthodox synagogues, summer camps, and day schools are challenged to ensure continuity and unity for the Jewish future. In this episode we discuss:
—Do we need to choose between caring about our fellow Jews and caring about the world?
—Why are younger Jews more antagonistic toward Israel than previous generations?
—Can American Jewry survive without a connection to Israel?
Tune in to hear a conversation about the past, present, and future of American Jewry.
Interview begins at 6:12.
Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch is a leader of the Reform Movement. He is the senior rabbi of Stephen Wise Free Synagogue and former executive director of the Association of Reform Zionists of America/World Union for Progressive Judaism, North America. He wrote two books: The Lilac Tree: A Rabbi’s Reflections on Love, Courage, and History (2023) and One People, Two Worlds: A Reform Rabbi and an Orthodox Rabbi Explore the Issues That Divide Them (2003), which he co-authored with Rabbi Yaakov Yosef Reinman.
References:
https://18forty.org/18-questions-40-israeli-thinkers-pod/
https://www.sefaria.org/Leviticus.19.17?ven=Tanakh:_The_Holy_Scriptures,_published_by_JPS&lang=bi&with=Translations&lang2=en
https://www.sefaria.org/Genesis.12.3?lang=bi&aliyot=0
https://www.sefaria.org/Amos.9?lang=bi
https://www.amazon.com/War-Return-Indulgence-Palestinian-Obstructed/dp/1250252768 by Adi Schwartz and Einat Wilf
https://www.amazon.com/Jewish-Wisdom-Spiritual-Historical-Thinkers/dp/0688129587/ref=sr_1_2?crid=31E837EIHHLUX&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.MiEfeE5911HXCwXouSjcR2_Hk9H1N720JixZgffZh2OaE1Z8b7lQKret_6YJOu7-mHOXA9ngzy2HGHz9YIKtQYwKgF5v6G_1-BGdnLrI-UghIFihseLp2_twzohyURDnXIQXotezIVRCUq3jYlDwXIQoP9SQ3vl0KjFIbJ47rvyd-_4PRlj5SaypmRx8Q4LqOJKae1aSjRQCC-q5oEOwpT5uJvPmW9nJOSjG_xuvnisf5fEFyrW6Zb48gIH4SH2ppXK6YMNaIdnKiQ_kMmqdCm3U82fOci3hIBqH6iznE_A.7xmGN8DYITayusI3Sggja6k6yMFVGvtmQCcPdxxUbqc&dib_tag=se&keywords=jewish+wisdom&qid=1719897577&s=books&sprefix=jewish+wisdom%2Cstripbooks%2C129&sr=1-2 by Joseph Telushkin
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10 AUG 2020 · In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, David sits down with Sara Susswein Tesler, an educator from SAR Academy in Riverdale, to talk about her experiences incorporating Biblical criticism into the Orthodox Day School environment. For more, visit https://18Forty.org/bible#tesler.
Biblical criticism has long been an elephant in the room of Orthodox institutions, even among Sara’s classmates while doing a master’s in Bible studies at Yeshiva University’s Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies. She has always been struck by the deafening silence regarding the questions it asks, and set out to introduce the topic to her students in SAR. But she also has a persistent anxiety and fear of driving her students away from Orthodox Judaism, and thinks carefully about the effects her teaching has on her students.
-How can one go about incorporating Bible studies into their faith?
-How should one go about teaching Bible studies without risking their students’ religiosity?
-Is there any superior approach, or are there multiple valid ones?
-And how have her students responded to her curriculum?
Tune in to hear Sara discuss some of the ramifications of Biblical criticism, both educationally and for her own religious identity.
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