Delivered at GGS 22/09/18
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
On the Jews and their Lies: Martin Luther's Anti-Semitism
22/07/18
Please join our Tisha B'Av Programme: Reflective, Informative, Inspirational
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
Sabbatai Zevi and the Feast of Tisha B'Av 1666
GGS 01/08/17
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
The Life and Works of Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Glasner
LSJS Feb - Apr 2017
From LSJS Website
Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Glasner (1854-1924) came from rabbinic aristocracy and was rabbi of Klausenberg in Romania. Remarkably, he was also a friend of Rav Kook, a fierce champion of independent Torah creativity and a charedi Zionist who saw in the return to the Land an opportunity to reinvent the Oral Law.
In this course we will study his influential essay on the future of Jewish Law, Dor Revi’i, as well as evaluating his views on rabbinic authority and his influence on thinkers such as Rabbi Professor Eliezer Berkovits and Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo.
Session 1: Rabbi Glasner: Charedi Zionist, Rabbinic Critic