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This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Judaism & Other Faiths"  Jews and Christians have lived together for 2000 years, through theological tension, cooperation, polemics, and violence. What are the theological issues that have defined each group’s identity over the course of time? How did each community read the Bible? Are there commonalities to be found between the kabbali...

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Judaism & Other Faiths"   This audio was originally recorded on 12/23/2015 as part of Drisha's Winter Week. 

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Judaism & Other Faiths" An exploration of the ways in which Jewish practices have affected, and have been affected by, Judaism's surrounding cultures.  This audio was originally recorded on 02/24/2014 as part of Drisha's lecture series on the topic of Judaism and Other Cultures: Influence, Intersection, and Impact. 

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Judaism & Other Faiths"  An exploration of the ways in which Jewish practices have affected, and have been affected by, Judaism's surrounding cultures. Click here for the accompanying source sheet.  This audio was originally recorded on 02/03/2014 as part of Drisha's  lecture series on the topic of Judaism and Other Cultures: Influence,...

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Judaism & Other Faiths"  An exploration of the ways in which Jewish practices have affected, and have been affected by, Judaism's surrounding cultures. Click here to view the accompanying source sheet.  This audio was originally recorded on 01/14/2014 as part of Drisha's lecture series on the topic of Judaism and Other Cultures: Influen...

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Judaism & Other Faiths" What are the implications of Maimonides’ privileging our rational capacities over our imaginative ones, for his views on God, prayer, women, Christianity, and Islam? Similarly, what are the implications of Buber's privileging human relations over rationality for his views on God, prayer, women, Christianity and I...

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Chassidut" Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) is well known as one of the greatest Jewish-American thinkers and social activists. It is much less widely known that he had been destined to become a Hasidic rebbe, a fate eliminated by circumstance, but revisited in his final work, A Passion for Truth, which explored the relevance of Hasidism...

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Chassidut" Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) is well known as one of the greatest Jewish-American thinkers and social activists. It is much less widely known that he had been destined to become a Hasidic rebbe, a fate eliminated by circumstance, but revisited in his final work, A Passion for Truth, which explored the relevance of Hasidism...

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Chassidut" Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) is well known as one of the greatest Jewish-American thinkers and social activists. It is much less widely known that he had been destined to become a Hasidic rebbe, a fate eliminated by circumstance, but revisited in his final work, A Passion for Truth, which explored the relevance of Hasidism...

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Chassidut" Together we will explore key teachings from Menahem Nahum of Chernobyl, Ukraine, a teacher of Torah and author of the Me'or Einayim. We will approach these texts with an eye to the theme of spiritual growth and collective change amid brokenness and fracture. Click here to view the accompanying source sheet.  This audio was origin...

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Chassidut"  In the final session of this series we'll explore the spiritual quest as a journey undertaken as both individuals and in community, recognizing that each person has a unique path in this world but that in this quest we are supported, shaped and transformed by our friends and fellow-travelers. This audio was originally captured f...

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Chassidut" In this session we'll explore a glowing Hasidic interpretation of the Selihot liturgy as a petition that God to be revealed in the process of prayer, and a reinterpretation of Psalm 27, the Psalm of Elul, that addresses the ever-higher vistas of religious seeking. We'll then read a sermon about  the infinite journey to grasp new...

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Chassidut"  These three sessions explore the endless search for God as a key theme in medieval and early-modern Judaism, with a particular emphasis on Hasidism and Jewish mysticism. The sources with which we engage portray religious life as an unceasing quest toward the Divine, an endless journey in which exegesis, self-discovery and sacred...

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Chassidut"  Rabbi Yehuda Aryeh Leib Alter of Ger, better known by the title of his classic work Sfat Emet, was one of the greatest and most creative chassidic masters of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. At once highly traditional and strikingly modern, the Sfat Emet articulated a powerful mystical theology that speaks to t...

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Chassidut"  Rav Elimelech of Lizhensk, a founder of Polish chassidut, is also one of the most original and complex of the early chassidic thinkers. Among the tensions explored in his thought – and embodied in his life – is that between love and criticism. He was, in a sense, a “specialist in rebuke,” and yet his prescription of this form of...

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Chassidut"  Throughout the literature of the Chabad movement, from its first written expression in the Likutei Amarim of Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi to the writings of the most recent rebbe, a singular vision remains constant: the essential unity of God within the chaotic multiplicity that characterize our limited perception of reality. T...

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Chassidut" Through study of selected Chassidic texts, we will explore the contemporary relevance of several models of sacred living found in the writings of Chassidic masters, with an eye to conceptions of holy time and space and the ways in which the sacred is expressed through human deeds. This audio was originally recorded on 10/28/2015...

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Chassidut"  What does it mean to be a good person and a good Jew in 2015? How can we educate ourselves and our community in an attempt to enact that vision? We will explore answers to these questions from Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, Rebbe of Piaseczno and the Warsaw Ghetto and author of several works including Derech Hamelech, Chovat Ha...

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Chassidut"  We will explore the theological and political debates surrounding the emergence of Chassidut in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. Specifically, we will address the history behind the movement and the type of social friction it generated in kitchens and study halls throughout eastern Europe. This audio was originally recorde...

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Chassidut"  Please note this series in in Hebrew.  The notion of din - a central motif in Kabbalistic literature - is reformulated and reframed throughout the works of the founder of Breslover Chasidut. What can a sensitive understanding of Rabbi Nahman's symbolic and cryptic teachings reveal to us regarding the existential and spiritual qu...

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Chassidut"  Please note this series in in Hebrew.  The notion of din - a central motif in Kabbalistic literature - is reformulated and reframed throughout the works of the founder of Breslover Chasidut. What can a sensitive understanding of Rabbi Nahman's symbolic and cryptic teachings reveal to us regarding the existential and spiritual qu...

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Chassidut"    This audio was originally recorded on 11/29/2012 as part of Drisha's open night of learning for Hurricane Sandy Relief. 

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Chassidut"  In praying to God, we express our personal theology and theodicy, alongside our simple faith and trust, with every utterance. For the chassidic masters the worlds of prayer expand beyond the boundaries of the siddur and fixed times of the day. The focus of this class is the Slonimer Rebbe. This audio was originally recorded on 0...

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Chassidut" In praying to God, we express our personal theology and theodicy, alongside our simple faith and trust, with every utterance. For the Chassidic masters, following the Amora’im (the sages of the Talmud), the worlds of prayer expand beyond the boundaries of the siddur and fixed times during the day. We will encounter the teachings...

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Chassidut" In praying to God, we express our personal theology and theodicy, alongside our simple faith and trust, with every utterance. For the chassidic masters the worlds of prayer expand beyond the boundaries of the siddur and fixed times of the day. The focus of this class is the early chassidic masters. This audio was originally recor...