Belovski’s Shiurim

Left Leaning? Anatomy and the Seder

To be delivered at GGS after Minchah, Shabbat HaGadol 5772

The Haggadah with the Abarbanel’s Commentary

JLE March 2012

Session 1: Ha Lachma

Transformational Ideas, Foods and Songs

LSJS 12/03/12

2: Thematic Foods

3: Monotheism against Manichaeism

Sinner or Tragic Hero?

LSJS March 2012

Session 1: The Text, Chazal and Rishonim

The Shem mi-Shemuel’s Radical Approach

Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, NY 10/02/12

See video here

Tolstoy, the Ishbitzer and Dostoevsky in Search of Authenticity

Yeshiva University, NY 09/02/11

Discover how Jewish Law is meeting the Challenges of Cyberspace

LSJS Jan – Mar 2012

From the LSJS Website:

The Internet and the inexorable growth of modern technology have produced some fraught and fascinating dilemmas for Jewish law.

Just what exactly do modern halachists have to say about issues of copyright law in cyberspace?

What are their sometimes controversial rulings on software pirating, downloading music and surfing the Net using a neighbour’s connection?

Find out what the law is about automated commerce on Shabbat and shared ownership in shady businesses.

Explore the possibilities when it comes to balancing religious obligations with the modern realities of Internet commerce.

On this course you will:

Consider whether halachah recognises intellectual property and other intangibles

Examine an acrimonious copyright dispute that made Jewish legal history

Discuss how halachah views the ‘pirating’ of music, videos and software

Wrestle with the ‘eBay dilemma’ – the auction that ends on Shabbat

Compare a man convicted of ‘piggy-backing’ on a Wi-Fi connection with his 3rd-century counterpart

Course Outline

Torah Commentators’ Response to Modernity

JLE Jan – Mar 2012

Part 8: Mikketz, VaYigash & VaYechi

King David, Bathsheba and the Conundrum of Psalm 51

LSJS 14/12/11