Classes by Mordechai Dinerman
By Mordechai Dinerman
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Text-based classes on assorted Judaic topics, with a special emphasis on Jewish history.
New episodes every week.
Made Possible by Unzer-Chadash Shul, Brooklyn NY.
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The Great Semicha Controversy, Part II
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May 20, 2025 |
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The Great Semicha Controversy, 1538
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May 13, 2025 |
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The Doctored Talmud: Prague, 1728
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May 06, 2025 |
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The Marranos’ Secret Pesach
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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The Machine Matzah Controversy
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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The Story of the Alter Rebbe’s Script
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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Rambam, the Almohads, and the Secret Jews
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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Rambam to the Rescue: His Legendary Letter to Yemen
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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The Regensburg Blood Libel
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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The Scandalous Marriage, 1348
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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Taxes and Tensions: The Story of Jewish Tax Disputes in Medieval Spain
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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Josephus
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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Lost Lights of Chanukah: Exploring the Books of Maccabees
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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The Titanic Question: The Halachic Dilemma of Men Lost at Sea
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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Benches, Bargains, and Bickering: Shul Seating in the Middle Ages
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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The Climate Clash: Rain, Rabbis, and Rulings for the Southern Hemisphere
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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The Warder Cresson Story
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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The Rebbe’s Rashi: Insights from Manuscripts and Incunabula Editions
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Rooted in Tradition: The Calabria Esrog Story
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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Lost in the Geniza: An Anonymous Teshuvah on the Two-Day Yom Tov Debate
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Sep 28, 2024 |
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The Vanishing Verses: Curious Cases of Textual Tampering in Our Machzor
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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Art of the Blast: Shofar Blowing Customs in Medieval Manuscripts
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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Fowl Play: The Great Turkey-Chicken Debate of the 19th Century
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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Dreams of Revision: The Role of Dreams in Altering Halachic Rulings
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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The Rabbi Who Wouldn’t Wait: A Proposal to Reinstate the Korbanos
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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Unconditional Love: A Commemorative Study of a Talk by the Lubavitcher Rebbe
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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The Provocative Portrait: Unveiling the True Face of Moshe Rabbeinu
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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Yom Tov Burial: The Talmud, the Rishonim, and the Baal Shem Tov
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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The Masada Martyrs: Halachic Perspectives on History’s Hardest Choices
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May 22, 2024 |
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Grain Matters: Navigating the Chadash Predicament Across the Centuries
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May 15, 2024 |
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The Frankist Blood Libel
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May 08, 2024 |
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The Kittsee Haggadah
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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The Printers’ Clash: The Battle Over Rambam’s Mishneh Torah, Venice 1550
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Seduction and Sacrifice: From the Purim Story to the Responsa Literature
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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Scrolls, Scribes, and Shortcuts: An Incomplete Megilah in the Cairo Geniza
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Lost Scrolls, Lost Souls: A Spanish Jew’s Plea to Rediscover Tanach | Favorite Episodes
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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The Scandalous History of Aleinu
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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The Meaning of Dreaming: Talmudic Perspectives | Favorite Episodes
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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Rambam’s Menorah: Insights from Ancient Hebrew Manuscripts | Favorite Episodes
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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Between Ashkenaz and Sefard: Medieval Women, Biblical Dena, and the Public Square | Favorite Episodes
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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In the Dungeons of the Inquisition
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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The Heartless Chicken
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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The Puzzle of Peshat: Rashbam’s Controversial Commentary
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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The History of Kol Nidrei
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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The History and Evolution of the Chabad Machzor
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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Troubling Tales: The Rebbe’s Approach to Controversial Stories
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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The Politics of Divorce: King Henry’s Wives and the Italian Rabbis
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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Dancing with History: The 15th of Av and Its Legacy in Renaissance Jewry
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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Rambam’s Menorah: Insights from Ancient Hebrew Manuscripts
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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The Controversial Haskamah
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Techeles: A Tangled Tale
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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The Missing Section in the Shulchan Aruch
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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Banned and Burned: The 1232 Controversy Surrounding Rambam’s Works
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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Remembering and Forgetting: The History of Chof Sivan | Replay
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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In the Wake of Shabtai Tzvi’s Betrayal
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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Women and the Study of Talmud
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May 31, 2023 |
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The Lion and the Snake: Tensions Over Artistic Expression in the Medieval Sanctuary
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May 17, 2023 |
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Rashba’s Rebuttal: Defending Judaism in Medieval Barcelona
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May 03, 2023 |
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Censoring Rambam’s Mishneh Torah in Czarist Russia
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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The Fate of the Marranos
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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First Edition: The Rebbe’s References to the 1485 Soncino Haggadah
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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Vanished Hero: Exploring the Absence of Moshe in the Haggadah
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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The King’s Prayer: A Controversial Statement by a 19th-Century Rabbi
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Zecher vs. Zeicher: Unraveling the Parshas Zachor Mystery
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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History and Development of the Talmudic Page
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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Debating the Death Penalty
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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Dividing Tanach into Chapters: A Historical Overview
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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Secrets of a Chozer: An Interview with Rabbi Simon Jacobson
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Loathing Our Clothing: The Despot’s Decree and Rabbinic Response
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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Burning of the Books: The Alter Rebbe, the Gra, and the Tzimtzum Tussle
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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The Nile on Trial: 16th-Century Rabbis and Aquatic Science
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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Evolution of the Tanya: Timely Lessons from the Eighteenth-Century Battle against Chasidism
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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When A London Rabbi Was Accused of Heresy
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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Between Ashkenaz and Sefard: Medieval Women, Biblical Dena, and the Public Square
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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The Meaning of Dreaming: Talmudic Perspectives
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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Liturgical Warfare Among 16th-Century Italian Jews
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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Is It Kosher To Elope? Marriage Without Parental Consent
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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Friday Night Kiddush Between 6 and 7
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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After A Decade of Barrenness: What Actually Happens
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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The Battle Over Machnisei Rachamim (Part 2)
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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The Battle Over Machnisei Rachamim (Part 1)
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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Buried Alive: The 18th-Century Halachic Debate
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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The Cracow Couple and Rama's Remarkable Responsum
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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The Rebbe Rashab, Zionism, and Expediting the End
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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The Barcelona Disputation: Was Moshiach Born on Tisha B’Av?
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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The Mekashya Mystery
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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Does Israel Amount to (the Beginnings of) Kibutz Goliyos?
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Jul 24, 2022 |
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The Day After: Reacting to Moshiach’s Not Coming in Chabad History
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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Predicting the Redemption: What About the Talmudic Prohibition?
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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The Dead Sea Scrolls (Part 3): The Philosophical Dispute
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Jul 10, 2022 |
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Paris 1240: Disputation and Devastation
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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The Dead Sea Scrolls (Part 2): An Alternative Jewish Calendar
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Jul 03, 2022 |
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Gun Control: Talmudic Perspectives
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls? A Talmudic Approach
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Jun 26, 2022 |
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The Scandal of the Missing Line: Allegations of Textual Corruption against Chabad
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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The Curious Case of the Desert Dead
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Jun 19, 2022 |
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Remembering and Forgetting: The History of Chof Sivan
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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The Rebbe’s Reshimas Hamenorah: An Overview
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Jun 12, 2022 |
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Spelling Hashem’s Name in Hebrew Manuscripts
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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Shavuos Art, and the Strange History of Akdamus
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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Shavuos Through the Lens of Historic Jewish Art
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May 29, 2022 |
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Explaining the Holocaust? Multiple Approaches by the Frierdiker Rebbe and Rebbe
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May 25, 2022 |
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Mishneh Torah: A Biography
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May 22, 2022 |
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The Cairo Genizah: Shedding Light on the Life and Works of the Rambam
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May 18, 2022 |
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A Jewish Guide to Horoscopes and Astrology (Part 3)
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May 15, 2022 |
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Overturning Roe v. Wade: Good for the Jews?
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May 11, 2022 |
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A Jewish Guide to Horoscopes and Astrology (Part 2)
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May 08, 2022 |
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A Jewish Guide to the Evil Eye
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May 04, 2022 |
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A Jewish Guide to Horoscopes and Astrology (Part 1)
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May 01, 2022 |
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A Jewish Guide to Demons and Spirits
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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Blatant Disregard of a Torah Law? On the Prohibition Against Settling in Egypt
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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Dominating Wives, Suffering, and Reincarnation: The Debate About Gilgul and It’s Connection to Pesach
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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The Blood Libel and Talmudic Censorship
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Apr 10, 2022 |
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The Old, the New, the Forgotten: Halachah and Minhag In Haggadah Art
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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Finders Keepers? Halachic Implications From Tzaraas In the Home
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Apr 03, 2022 |
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Evolution of the Haggadah: A Pictorial History, from the Cairo Genizah, to the Medieval Art Workshop, to the Modern Printing Press
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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Kosher Pig? Analyzing a Mysterious Midrash (Part 2)
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Mar 27, 2022 |
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The Letter and Spirit of the Law vis-a-vis Imitation Products
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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Kosher Pig? Analyzing a Mysterious Midrash (Part 1)
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Mar 20, 2022 |
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Purim Through the Lens of Historic Jewish Art
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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Purim Class - The Manos Halevi by Rabbi Shlomo Alkabetz: Overview and Highlights
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Mar 13, 2022 |
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Rabbinic Police Powers, Love and Hate, and Stern Censorship: Insights from Newly Discovered Passages of the Alter Rebbe’s Shulchan Aruch
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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The Halachic Status of Christianity: Insights from Newly Discovered Passages of the Alter Rebbe’s Shulchan Aruch
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Mar 09, 2022 |