Preparing to Fast: Children and Yom Kippur
To be delivered at GGS after Minchah, Shabbat Shuvah 5779
Primary Sources:
Mishnah & Gemara Yoma 82a with Rashi, Pirush HaMishnah LaRambam ad loc.
Yad, Hilchot Shevitat Asor 2:10-11
Sukkah 43b with Rashi ad loc.
Shulchan Aruch OC Simon 657
Sukkah 2b with Ritva ad loc.
Sefer HaMitzvot LaRambam Positive 164 & Prohibitive 196
Celebration, Preparation or Culmination? Exploring Erev Pesach
To be delivered at GGS after Minchah, Shabbat HaGadol 5778
Primary Sources:
Mishnah, Pesachim 50a with following commentaries:
Rashi; Tosfot, s.v. 'Makom SheNahagu'; Ba'al HaMa'or; Milchamot HaShem; Ra'avad; Ritva; Me'iri; Ran
Yerushalami Pesachim 4:1
Rambam Hilchot Yom Tov 8:17-18
Yom Kippur Viduy and the Mechanics of Teshuvah
To be delivered at GGS after Minchah on Shabbat Shuvah 5778 Primary Sources:
Vayikra 16:30
Yoma 86b with Rashi and Rif
Rambam Hilchot Teshuvah 2:7 with Ma'aseh Rokeach
Yoma 81a with Sefat Emet
Mordechai, Yoma 725
Rosh, Yoma 8:25
Chametz, Erev Pesach and Transformational Authority
To be delivered at GGS after Minchah, Shabbat HaGadol, 5777
Primary Sources:
Devarim 17:8-13Selections from Pesachim 6a; 87a
Selections from Yad, Hilchot Mamrim 1:1-2; 3:4; 4:1 (with commentaries of Kesef Mishneh & Ribdaz)
Rambam, Sefer HaMitzvot Shoresh 1, with Hasagot HaRamban
Kuntres Divrey Sofrim 1:32-33; 41-42
Meshech Chochmah to Devarim 17:11
As the Gates Close: The Timing and Purpose of Ne'ilah
To be delivered at GGS after Minchah, Shabbat Shuvah 5777
Primary Sources:
Ta'anit 26a
Yerushalmi Brachot 4:1
Yoma 87b with Rashi, Rosh, Ran, Ba'al HaMa'or and Me'iri ad loc.
Selections from Yad Hilchot Tefillah U'Nesi'at Kapayim Chapters 1, 3 & 14
Tur OC Siman 623 with Bet Yosef and Bach ad loc.
Shulchan Aruch OC Siman 623:2 with Magen Avraham and Taz ad loc.
Left Leaning? Science and the Seder
Midrasha 12/04/16
A Song in Two Parts: Hallel at the Seder
To be delivered at GGS after Minchah, Shabbat HaGadol 5776
Primary Sources:
Selections from Mishnah Pesachim: 9:2; 10-5-7Selections from Bavli Pesachim: 85b; 109a; 117a; 118a (with commentary of Ran)
Tosefta Pesachim 10:9
Tosefot Yom Tov to Pesach 10:6
Yerushalmi Megillah 2:1
Teshuvot HaGaonim Sha'arey Teshuvah 120
Yad Hilchot Chanukah 3:6 with notes of Ra'avad and Magid Mishneh
Chiddushey Griz HaLevi ad loc.
Tosefot Rid Pesachim 116b
The Case of the Empty Tefillin: Lo Titgodedu in Action
To be delivered at GGS after Minchah, Shabbat Shuvah 5776
Kitniot Today and Rav Kook's Sesame Oil
Midrasha 24/03/15