Teshuva — The Great Turning: Its Moral and Mystical Promise
This episode features “Teshuva — The Great Turning: The Moral and Mystical Promise,” a presentation by Rabbi Daniel Landes which discusses different approaches to Teshuva based on the writings of Rav Kook.
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About Rabbi Landes
Rabbi Daniel Landes is the Director and Rosh Yeshiva of the Pardes Institute
He has been described as a “remarkable teacher who weaves the insights of his students together through a group process, in order to discover fascinating new meanings in age-old texts.” As Director and Rosh Yeshiva, he heads a team of outstanding scholars at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, who are well-known for their use of unique educational methodology which combines independent thinking and deep understanding with sensitivity to contemporary relevance.
Landes was a founding faculty member and Director of educational projects at the Simon Wiesenthal Center and Professor of Ethics and Values at Yeshiva University of Los Angeles. He taught Jewish Law at Loyola Law School. For a number of years, he was a faculty member at prominent think tanks such as The RAND Corporation and major Jewish educational institutions such as the Brandeis Bardin Institute and CLAL. Landes remains a long-term faculty member of the Wexner Heritage Foundation. Landes has lectured at the Rabbinic Seminaries of all major denominations.
He is well-known for his struggle to create Jewish unity: in America his synagogue in Los Angeles, Bnai David Judaea, was known for Jewish inclusivity, feminism, social action and Halakhic observance. He now serves on the Educational Advisory Committee of Birthright-Israel.
He has written widely in the area of social ethics, theology and mysticism. Landes is the Jewish law commentator for the recent series, My People’s Prayerbook, a multi-denominational effort.
“By setting a standard of religious sensitivity and textual study, the impact of Pardes will be felt way beyond its walls.”