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Join Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Brovender for his weekly shiur on the parshat hashavua and come away with creative insights into the weekly Torah portion.

This week we will start Moed Katan. We will start with an overview of  the Masechet and understand some of the central themes that will be  discussed over the next few weeks. We will learn what activities are  permitted on Chol HaMOed and during the Shemita year, specifically  watering different types of fields. We will also learn about fixing  water cisterns and about mar...

Class description Tropes of Immortality Aging Too Would Need to Be Overcome (including Struldbrugs in Gulliver’s Travels) Pro: You Could Be a Repository of Memory You Could Learn a Huge Amount (including Cinderella in Fables) You Could Try Everything (including Hob Gadling in The Sandman) Neutral Con: You Would Have No Incentive (including “If We Were Vampires”) You Would Watch Everyone Die You Wo...

Class description Not Good to Be Alone — Torah Not Good to Be Alone — Today Being Alone (including The Martian) Hating Being Alone (including Frankenstein) Being Lonely — Physical, Psychological Being Lonely — Existential, Ontological Positives of Loneliness (including Leonard Cohen’s Book of Mercy) Everyone is Lonely (including “Message in a Bottle”) Compensating With Community (including “Piano...

Class description Fear Can Be Good (including Inside Out and The New Batman Adventures) But It’s Usually Bad Pachad vs. Yirah Don’t Make Yourself Afraid The Appeal of Horror (including Stephen King) Overcoming Fear with Laughter (including Boggarts) Face Your Fears! (including Divergent, Dune, and Defending Your Life)

Fictional Fantasies (including High School Musical) Frum Fantasies Impatience in Jewish History Impatience Today: How Did We Get Here? (including Credit Cards and Amazon Prime) What's Wrong With Impatience, Anyway?

Class description A Time for Everything: “Turn! Turn! Turn!” We’re Like Dust: “Dust in the Wind” The Sun Stays the Same: “Time” Have Fun, But There’s a Price to Pay: “Somewhere Along the Line” The Bottom Line is to Fear God: “Meaningless” Everything is Fleeting: “Leaves That Are Green” Appreciate the Time You Have With Your Loved Ones: “Do You Realize??”

Class description What’s Worse Than Being in Galut? Getting Used to It Antisemitism and Bambi the Book Intermarriage and Fiddler on the Roof Assimilation is Like Being a Fish Out of Water Assimilation and The Little Mermaid Giving Up Her Voice The Four Children and Four Generations in America

Class description The Yetzer is Necessary: A Star Trek Episode A Special Drug Can Amplify the Yetzer: Dr. Jekyll and Captain America The Yetzer Hara is on the Side of Good: Willy Wonka and the Zohar The Psychology of the Yetzer Hara: The Screwtape Letters Appendix: What Does Charlie Do to Deserve Winning the Chocolate Factory?

Class description What If Mashiach Were Right Here? God’s Multiple Images A Voice Customized to You Anthropomorphism is Necessary Visual Representation of God, Though, Is Never Allowed We Can Still Learn Much From Portrayals of God: Tzimtzum La-Shem Ha’aretz Umloa’ah Tzaddik Ve-Ra Lo Ein Tzayar K’Elokeinu Grappling With How to Portray God A Form Customized to You Bruce Almighty Oh, God!

Class description Darth Vader: The Greatest Villain Ever to Do Teshuvah Nineveh = The Empire Ebenezer Scrooge: The Most Famous Jerk-to-Nice-Guy Phil Connors: Stuck in Groundhog Day Until He Changes

Class description The Middah of Sticking to It Schulz’s Monumental Achievement The Football Joke and the Middah of Naivete Unrequited Love It’s Dark and Bleak Survival: Jewish Strategies Survival: Peanuts Strategies Charlie Brown Snoopy The Cartoonist and the Rabbi

Class description A Torah Approach to Female Beauty Barbie’s Materialism The Body Image Problem Is Barbie Part of The Problem? Yes Why Does Barbie Look Like That, Anyway? Is Barbie Part of The Problem? No This Doll Was Innovative: A Woman, Not a Baby A Woman’s Independence According to Halakhah A Woman’s Independence According to Handler

Class description Some Good Middot and Lessons in the Series Acceptance of Death Alchemy Christianity Should We Be Worried About Kishuf?

Class description Is There Judaism in “The Matrix”? What’s Real? Thinking About It in Pop Culture And How Do You *Know* What’s Real and True? Wake Up! Insights Into Geulah and Mashiach

Class description Masks on Purim Masks Can Be Liberating Two Types of Secret Identities Deciding Who You Are Batman Vs. Bruce Wayne Why Superman’s Secret Identity is Safe He’s Really Superman He’s Really Clark Kent Both Identities Are Essential We All Wear Masks

Class description The Heroism of Self-Control The Heroism of Helping Others The Value of Never Giving Up Reading Superheroes as an Adult The Great Burden Chasid vs. Kovesh et Yitzro Superman as Chasid Superman as Survivor Batman as Kovesh et Yitzro Batman vs. Superman

Class description The Value of Stories The Appeal of Fantasy Should Adults Read Children’s Books? How Did Fantasy Become a Children’s Thing? Actually, (Almost) All Fiction is Fantasy

Az előadás során a modern genetikai vizsgálatok és a zsidóság igazolásának a kapcsolatáról fogunk beszélni.

Class description Az előadásban a legfrissebb responzumokkal fogunk foglalkozni, melyek az elmúlt hónapokban születtek, a koronavírussal kapcsolatos háláchikus kérdésekre.

Class description A mesterségesen előállított hús ehető-e tejjel? És ha nem kóser állatból nyertük az első sejteket? Ha állati vérre van szükség az előállításhoz, akkor is lehet majd fogyasztani? Ezekre és hasonló kérdésekre keressük a választ a sorozat második előadásán.

Class description Az előadássorozat első részében a XXI. századi új vásárlási szokásokkal és annak vallásjogi konzekvenciáival foglalkozunk.

Class description Mindenkit várunk szeretettel ma este 21:00-kor! A sorozat utolsó előadásán a “techélet” – a ciceszrojtok kék szálának kapcsán arról beszélünk, hogyan befolyásolják a háláchát, a zsidó vallásjogot a modern tudományos felfedezések.

Class description A mai, utolsó előadáson praktikus etikai kérdésekkel foglalkozunk.

Class description A mai előadáson az élettapasztalatok fontosságáról beszélünk.