Turn it and Turn it

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Divinity & Humanity" The Torah teaches us that humanity is created in the divine image. Chazal develop and apply this theme in a number of places, and their discussions lay bare important questions about the nature of the divine image. In particular, several Talmudic passages explicitly address how the divine image maps onto categories...

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Divinity & Humanity" The Torah teaches us that humanity is created in the divine image. Chazal develop and apply this theme in a number of places, and their discussions lay bare important questions about the nature of the divine image. In particular, several Talmudic passages explicitly address how the divine image maps onto categories...

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Divinity & Humanity" The Torah teaches us that humanity is created in the divine image. Chazal develop and apply this theme in a number of places, and their discussions lay bare important questions about the nature of the divine image. In particular, several Talmudic passages explicitly address how the divine image maps onto categories...

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Divinity & Humanity" As Western humans we believe in humanism, but can Jewish tradition contribute something to our understanding of human dignity? There are many Jewish sources on this issue, but can a Jewish perspective on this issue be said to exist? Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) believed that we can develop such an approach. In...

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Divinity & Humanity" As Western humans we believe in humanism, but can Jewish tradition contribute something to our understanding of human dignity? There are many Jewish sources on this issue, but can a Jewish perspective on this issue be said to exist? Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) believed that we can develop such an approach. In...

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Divinity & Humanity" As Western humans we believe in humanism, but can Jewish tradition contribute something to our understanding of human dignity? There are many Jewish sources on this issue, but can a Jewish perspective on this issue be said to exist? Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) believed that we can develop such an approach. In...

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Divinity & Humanity" As Western humans we believe in humanism, but can Jewish tradition contribute something to our understanding of human dignity? There are many Jewish sources on this issue, but can a Jewish perspective on this issue be said to exist? Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) believed that we can develop such an approach. In...

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Divinity & Humanity" As Western humans we believe in humanism, but can Jewish tradition contribute something to our understanding of human dignity? There are many Jewish sources on this issue, but can a Jewish perspective on this issue be said to exist? Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) believed that we can develop such an approach. In...

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Divinity & Humanity"  As Western humans we believe in humanism, but can Jewish tradition contribute something to our understanding of human dignity? There are many Jewish sources on this issue, but can a Jewish perspective on this issue be said to exist? Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) believed that we can develop such an approach. I...

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Divinity & Humanity"  This audio was originally recorded on 07/18/2018 as part of a three-part lecture series on "In the Image of God: Divine and Human Self-Restraint."

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Divinity & Humanity" This audio was originally recorded on 07/11/2018 as part of a three-part lecture series on "In the Image of God: Divine and Human Self-Restraint."

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Divinity & Humanity" This audio was originally recorded on 12/25/2017 as part of Drisha's Winter Week of Learning. 

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Divinity & Humanity" This lecture compares Martin Buber's emphasis on mutuality in dialogue with Franz Rosenzweig, and Emmanuel Levinas’ philosophies of dialogue.  While Rosenzweig and Levinas share much in common with Buber, they stress the fundamentally asymmetrical nature of our relation to others (we owe others something but they do...

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Divinity & Humanity" We will explore the ways in which Jewish thinkers and texts have defined the “body,” the “soul,” and the nexus between them. Studying such topics as tzelem elokim (image of God) and inui (self-affliction), we will also examine our own relationship to the body-soul split in our Jewish practice. This audio was origina...

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "COVID" Click here to view the accompanying source sheet.  This audio was originally captured on 07/05/2022 as part of Drisha's summer kollel night seder. 

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "COVID" This series features an intensive study of several responsa relating to plagues throughout Jewish history on topics of practical Halakhah, safety, and theology. We will study responsa authored by the Rashbash, Rabbi Akiva Eger, the Hazon Ish, and contemporary decisors, and others. This audio was originally captured from Zoom on 05/05...

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "COVID" This series features an intensive study of several responsa relating to plagues throughout Jewish history on topics of practical Halakhah, safety, and theology. We will study responsa authored by the Rashbash, Rabbi Akiva Eger, the Hazon Ish, and contemporary decisors, and others. This audio was originally captured from Zoom on 05/05...

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "COVID" This series features an intensive study of several responsa relating to plagues throughout Jewish history on topics of practical Halakhah, safety, and theology. We will study responsa authored by the Rashbash, Rabbi Akiva Eger, the Hazon Ish, and contemporary decisors, and others. This audio was originally captured from Zoom on 04/28...

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "COVID" Plague is one of God’s preferred forms of collective punishment in the Bible. Just as plagues often start in reaction to human misdeeds, they can often be stopped by human action as well. What stops a plague? How can individual actions, even extreme ones, change the balance of the public’s guilt in God’s eyes? To answer these questio...

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "COVID" Plague is one of God’s preferred forms of collective punishment in the Bible. Just as plagues often start in reaction to human misdeeds, they can often be stopped by human action as well. What stops a plague? How can individual actions, even extreme ones, change the balance of the public’s guilt in God’s eyes? To answer these questio...

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "COVID" Plague is one of God’s preferred forms of collective punishment in the Bible. Just as plagues often start in reaction to human misdeeds, they can often be stopped by human action as well. What stops a plague? How can individual actions, even extreme ones, change the balance of the public’s guilt in God’s eyes? To answer these questio...

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "COVID" Solitude comes in many forms in Jewish tradition: Miriam was sent out of the camp for her leprosy. The High Priest quarantines in advance of Yom Kippur. Rav Anan sat in a box to study with Elijah the prophet and Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai and his son learned deep Torah in their cave. Rebbe Nachman of Breslov wrote a How-To Guide for Hit...

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "COVID" Solitude comes in many forms in Jewish tradition: Miriam was sent out of the camp for her leprosy. The High Priest quarantines in advance of Yom Kippur. Rav Anan sat in a box to study with Elijah the prophet and Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai and his son learned deep Torah in their cave. Rebbe Nachman of Breslov wrote a How-To Guide for Hit...

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "COVID" Solitude comes in many forms in Jewish tradition: Miriam was sent out of the camp for her leprosy. The High Priest quarantines in advance of Yom Kippur. Rav Anan sat in a box to study with Elijah the prophet and Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai and his son learned deep Torah in their cave. Rebbe Nachman of Breslov wrote a How-To Guide for Hit...

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "COVID" Solitude comes in many forms in Jewish tradition: Miriam was sent out of the camp for her leprosy. The High Priest quarantines in advance of Yom Kippur. Rav Anan sat in a box to study with Elijah the prophet and Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai and his son learned deep Torah in their cave. Rebbe Nachman of Breslov wrote a How-To Guide for Hit...