20 Jul 2010

Tisha B'Av 5770

Knowledge and power: the disputation in Paris and the burning of the Talmud 1240-1242

Golders Green Synagogue 20/07/10 

 

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8 Jul 2010

The Kedushah of Eretz Yisrael

The centrality of the Land in Jewish thought

Women’s Chaburah 08/07/10

 

 

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4 Jul 2010

Shir HaShirim

An introduction to creative and thematic interpretations

LSJS 04/07/10

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6 Jun 2010

Kol Ishah

Kol Ishah in early and modern texts

Women’s Chaburah 06/06/10

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21 May 2010

Shavuot 5770

Contemplating the abyss: the Ishbitzer meets Dostoevsky

Shiur notes from Leil Shavuot 5770 / 2010

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22 Apr 2010

Three approaches to Tefillah

Simple prayer, self-development or re-ordering the universe?

Chaburah 22/04/10

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28 Mar 2010

Shabbat HaGadol 5770

Charoset – Mitzvah, Minhag or Memento?

GGS 27/03/10

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24 Mar 2010

Whirlwind Tours 4

A Whirlwind Tour of the Haggadah

Golders Green Synagogue 24/03/10

References are to the ArtScroll Family Haggadah.

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25 Feb 2010

The Piaseczno Rebbe

The radical thought of Rabbi Kalonymous Kalmish Shapiro הי"ד 

LSJS January – February 2010

From the LSJS website:

You will study select writings of Rabbi Kalonymous Kalmish Shapira, the Piaseczno Rebbe. He was a radical educational theorist, teacher of meditation and a profound student of the psychological horrors of the Holocaust, in which he perished.  This course will examine his educational methodology, his programme for building an inspired religious community, and his Holocaust diary, discovered in the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto.

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Session 1: Introduction and Chovat HaTalmidim - radical educational theory (1)

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Piacetzner. 1A. Lsjs by Rhb  
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Piacetzner. 1B. Lsjs by Rhb  
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Session 2: Chovat HaTalmidim - radical educational theory (2)

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Piacetzner. 2A. Lsjs by Rhb  
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Session 3: Meditation, music and self-mastery

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Piacetzner. 3A. Lsjs by Rhb  
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Piacetzner. 3B. Lsjs by Rhb  
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Session 4: Beney Machshavah Tovah - the elite society

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Piacetzner. 4A. Lsjs by Rhb  
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Session 5: Aish Kodesh - Torah from the Holocaust (1)

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Piacetzner. 5A. Lsjs by Rhb  
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Piacetzner. 5B. Lsjs by Rhb  
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Session 6: Aish Kodesh - Torah from the Holocaust (2) and thoughts on Purim

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Piacetzner. 6A. Lsjs by Rhb  
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24 Jan 2010

Magic and things that go bump in the night

A look at manipulating creation and Ayin HaRa

Chaburah 24/01/10

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Rabbi Harvey Belovski's Posterous

Rabbi of the Golders Green Synagogue in London, rabbinic mentor for University Jewish Chaplaincy, teaching fellow at LSJS, lecturer, writer, rabbinical advisor, trouble-maker, and post-graduate philosophy student.

Curious about anything interesting, but particularly enthusiastic about unusual Torah thinkers, especially 19th- and early 20th-century Polish Chassidic leaders, notably the Rebbes of Przysucha, Kock, Izbica-Radzin and Sochaczew.

Trying hard to juggle being a husband, father, rabbi, teacher, iconoclast and independent thinker. Succeeding some of the time.

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