Featuring Professor William Kolbrener, Rebbetzin Dr Hadassah Fromson and Rabbi Dr Harvey Belovski
Delivered for GGS 26/05/20
The Visionary Chutzpah of Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Kalischer
Yom HaAtzmaut 5780
The Matzah Conundrum: Conflicting Views of a Simple Mitzvah
Featured on the GGS YouTube Channel for Shabbat HaGadol 5780
Primary Sources:
Mechilta D'Rebbi Yishmael Mesechta D'Pischa 8
Pesachim 120a with Rashi and Torah Temimah ad loc.
Tosfot Berachot 26a s.v. 'Ta'ah'
Yad, Hilchot Chametz U'Matzah 6:1
Yom Kippur and the Moment of Teshuvah
To be delivered at GGS after Minchah, Shabbat Shuvah 5780
Primary Sources:
Selections from Yoma 85b, 86b, 87b with Rashi and Rif ad loc
Shevuot 13b-14a with Rashi ad loc
Kereitot 7a with Tosfot ad loc
Yerushalmi Yoma 8:7
Yad, Hilchot Teshuvah 1:1; 2:7-8
The Kielce Pogrom 1946: Blood Libel in the Shadow of the Holocaust
GGS 11/08/19
An Enigmatic Brachah: The Search for Chametz and the Character of Mitzvot
To be delivered at GGS after Minchah, Shabbat HaGadol 5779
Primary Sources:
Pesachim 7a-b with the following commentaries
Rashi, Tosfot s.v. 'Ki Pligi', Meiri, Rosh Siman 10
Rambam Hilchot Brachot 11:11-15