Julian Ungar-Sargon

Batya Ungar-Sargon shares Netziv commentaries on the parsha. These sessions are held on Zoom every week in memory of our mother in-law whose dedication to the Netziv (her great great grandfather), was legendary. It is estimated she studied the Ha'amek Davar some 78 times throughout her life, devoting every Tuesday to its study. May her memory be a blessing to her family and klal Yisroel.

Batya Ungar-Sargon shares Netziv commentaries on the parsha. These sessions are held on Zoom every week in memory of our mother in-law whose dedication to the Netziv (her great great grandfather), was legendary. It is estimated she studied the Ha'amek Davar some 78 times throughout her life, devoting every Tuesday to its study. May her memory be a blessing to her family and klal Yisroel.

Dr. Julian Ungar-Sargon shares Netziv commentaries on the parsha. These sessions are held on Zoom every week in memory of our mother in-law whose dedication to the Netziv (her great great grandfather), was legendary. It is estimated she studied the Ha'amek Davar some 78 times throughout her life, devoting every Tuesday to its study. May her memory be a blessing to her family and klal Yisroel.

Dr. Julian Ungar-Sargon shares Netziv commentaries on the parsha. These sessions are held on Zoom every week in memory of our mother in-law whose dedication to the Netziv (her great great grandfather), was legendary. It is estimated she studied the Ha'amek Davar some 78 times throughout her life, devoting every Tuesday to its study. May her memory be a blessing to her family and klal Yisroel.

Batya Ungar-Sargon shares Netziv commentaries on the parsha. These sessions are held on Zoom every week in memory of our mother in-law whose dedication to the Netziv (her great great grandfather), was legendary. It is estimated she studied the Ha'amek Davar some 78 times throughout her life, devoting every Tuesday to its study. May her memory be a blessing to her family and klal Yisroel.

Miriam Gettinger shares Netziv commentaries on the parsha. These sessions are held on Zoom every week in memory of our mother in-law whose dedication to the Netziv (her great great grandfather), was legendary. It is estimated she studied the Ha'amek Davar some 78 times throughout her life, devoting every Tuesday to its study. May her memory be a blessing to her family and klal Yisroel.

Batya Ungar-Sargon shares Netziv commentaries on the parsha. These sessions are held on Zoom every week in memory of our mother in-law whose dedication to the Netziv (her great great grandfather), was legendary. It is estimated she studied the Ha'amek Davar some 78 times throughout her life, devoting every Tuesday to its study. May her memory be a blessing to her family and klal Yisroel.

Tsiona Adler gives the memory of the Rebbetzin. Batya Ungar-Sargon gives a memory of Willi Ungar, her grandfather and Dr. Julian Ungar-Sargon's father. Rabbi Perkel teaches two Netziv's from this week's parsha.

This hesped was given on March 9, 2023 at the burial of my father, Wilhelm Ungar, may his memory be a blessing.

Miriam Gettinger shares Netziv commentaries on the parsha. These sessions are held on Zoom every week in memory of our mother in-law whose dedication to the Netziv (her great great grandfather), was legendary. It is estimated she studied the Ha'amek Davar some 78 times throughout her life, devoting every Tuesday to its study. May her memory be a blessing to her family and klal Yisroel.

Batya Ungar-Sargon shares Netziv commentaries on the parsha. These sessions are held on Zoom every week in memory of our mother in-law whose dedication to the Netziv (her great great grandfather), was legendary. It is estimated she studied the Ha'amek Davar some 78 times throughout her life, devoting every Tuesday to its study. May her memory be a blessing to her family and klal Yisroel.

Batya Ungar-Sargon shares four Netziv commentaries on the parsha. These sessions are held on Zoom every week in memory of our mother in-law whose dedication to the Netziv (her great great grandfather), was legendary. It is estimated she studied the Ha'amek Davar some 78 times throughout her life, devoting every Tuesday to its study. May her memory be a blessing to her family and klal Yisroel.

Open closed open. Before we are born, everything is open in the universe without us. For as long as we live, everything is closed within us. And when we die, everything is open again. Open closed open. That's all we are. I Wasn't One of the Six Million , Yehuda Amichai

We trace three episodes in the midrashic life of Noah,  his father’s hope for him (Rashi: inventor of the plow), his wounding by the lion (either inside or on exiting the ark) and subsequent impotence, and his planting of the vineyard (with Satan) and inebriation. How do these connect and how do they inform him and us as to the dark side of technology as a solution to the cursed ground?

We explore the challenge of describing a prelapsarian Edenic world without the yetzer hara…Using language of a post-lapsarian post-Eitz Hadaas self-consciousness The Talmud (Kiddushin 30)suggests that torah is a Tavlin for the Yetzer hara….how do we translate this word? And how does the translation affect the way we articulate the impact of the yetser hara? 

We connect the verse in Ha’azinu with the liturgy of funerals (zadok hadin) and the Eleh eskera elegy (during Mussaf Yom Kippur) . Can we see a similar self incrimination and divine justification in  the famous story of Reb Eliezer and the Roman procurator (mirrored in 3 separate texts) ...

We explore the history of the Unetaneh Tokef prayer considered the most poignant part of the Mussaf liturgy, its origins and theology, And how we can relate to the implicit themes of life, death,  punishment and salvation.

The central liturgical text in Judaism the “Shema” Deut 6….contains the command to “love Hashem with all your heart(s)” We explore the dual chambered heart and the Mishnaic exegesis of the good and evil desire brought into service of love. The Rambam seems to contradict himself as to the means to achieve this love and the Sifre (midrashic) doubts about loving something intangible. We try to resolv...

A quick introduction to the life and work of the Netziv on the occasion of a community trip to Warsaw.

Parshas Pinchas: Moses' dialogue with the Divine regarding his successor...From biblical text through midrashic protest to Hassidic notions of leadership.

Examining the story of the speaking she-ass in Num 22 we struggle with making sense of the narrative from a literary and folklore perspective and exploring the comparison between Moses and Balaam (Sifre Deut. 357).

The literary problems with the two rock episodes in Exodus and Numbers open us to the midrashic reflections on the Moshe Rabeinu’s anxiety prior to striking the rock. For Rashi and others they were 2 separate historical episodes, for Bechor Shor  however,  two stories with similar content refer to a single event.  The placing of the staff on the rock precipitates his rage and midrashic shame (woe...

We travel thru the mystery of the literal reading of this short tragic story of the gatherer of wood on Shabbat to the association with the anonymous “ish” with none other than the father of the Bnos Zleofchad later in Numbers. Rabbi Akiva makes the connection then gets chastised for “outing” this person! We dive into the Zoharic connection between gathering wood (trees literally) and the mortal o...

 In the Interpretation of Dreams (1900a), commenting on the "dream of the Fates (Knödel), Freud wrote that "at the woman's breast love and hunger meet.”  Our exploration of the midrashim surrounding the “mitonenim” (Num 11) reveals the connection between their disgust of the manna (tasting like breast milk) and  Moshe Rabbeinu’s complaint of being a suckling father to his early trau...

We explore the notion of confession, religious , political and in recovery ...and Rebbe Nachman's image of inscription of sin in the bones....and Judah's rattling bones in his coffin.