4 Jul 2010

Shir HaShirim

An introduction to creative and thematic interpretations

LSJS 04/07/10

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17 May 2010

Revelation

Reading the script or writing the story?

LSJS May 2010

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Part 1: Recording failed: hope to re-record at some point

Part 2: Chazal (2) and Rishonim (1)

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Part 3: Rishonim (2) and later sources

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2 Mar 2010

Tzidkat HaTzadik 6

Determinism and free will

LSJS 02/03/10

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Tzidkat. Hatzadik. 6. Lsjs by Rhb  
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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.

Course materials

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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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Piacetzner. 2B. 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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Piacetzner. 4B. 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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Piacetzner. 6B. Lsjs by Rhb  
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9 Feb 2010

Tzidkat HaTzadik 3

Dreams and the unconscious

LSJS 09/02/10

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Tzidkat. Hatzadik. 3. Lsjs by Rhb  
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8 Feb 2010

The Golden Calf

Idolatry, leadership struggle or mystical misunderstanding?

LSJS January - February 2010

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Session 1: The Text and Chazal (1)

Egel. 1. Lsjs by Rhb  
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Session 2: Chazal (2) and Rishonim (1)

Egel. 2. Lsjs by Rhb  
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Session 3: Rishonim (2)

Egel. 3. Lsjs by Rhb  
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Session 4: 20th century sources

Egel. 4. Lsjs by Rhb  
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2 Feb 2010

Tzidkat HaTzadik 2

The battle with the imagination

LSJS 02/02/10

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Tzidkak. Hatzadik. 2. Lsjs by Rhb  
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26 Jan 2010

Tzidkat HaTzadik 1

Sin, darkness and the transformation of desire

LSJS 26/01/10

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Tzidkak. Hatzadik. 1. Lsjs by Rhb  
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14 Dec 2009

Demystifying the Mishkan

Midrashic, esoteric and philosophical perspectives

LSJS November – December 2009

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Part 1 - Exploring the text and Chazal (1)

Mishkan. Lsjs. 1 by Rhb  
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Part 2 - Chazal (2) and Rishonim (1)

Mishkan. Lsjs. 2 by Rhb  
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Part 3 - Rishonim (2)

Mishkan. Lsjs. 3 by Rhb  
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Part 4 - Perpectives from Shem MiShmuel and Malbim

Mishkan. Lsjs. 4 by Rhb  
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24 Sep 2009

Yom Kippur 5770

Sudden and gradual Teshuvah – Rambam and Rav Kook

LSJS 24/09/09

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Yom. Kippur. 2. 5770 by Rhb  
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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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