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5770 — Nitzavim: Not in Heaven — Handout

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

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5770 — Nitzavim: Not in Heaven

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

This week Rabbi Meir Schweiger discusses parshat Nitzavim and the famous Talmud story from Bava Metzia 59a.

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About Rabbi Schweiger
Rabbi Meir Schweiger is a Senior Faculty Member and the Mashgiach Ruchani (the spiritual guide) of the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem. He has been a full-time teacher there for the last 31 years, teaching Chumash, Mishna, Talmud, and Halacha. He is a dynamic and inspiring speaker, known for his keen and profound insights into the text. Meir has a BA in mathematics and physics from City College in New York. He did his advanced Jewish studies at Yeshiva University, Yeshivat Kerem B’Yavneh, and Yeshivat Har Etzion, receiving ordination from Rabbi Zalman Nehemiah Goldberg of Jerusalem. Meir served in the IDF as a combat medic. He has 9 children and lives in Efrat.

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5770 — Ki Tavo: Living in God’s Presence

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

This week Rabbi Michael Hattin discusses parsha Ki Tavo.

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About Rabbi Hattin
Rabbi Michael Hattin is a member of the Pardes faculty, his focus is the T’anach. He holds a professional degree in architecture from the University of Toronto and completed his rabbinical studies at Yeshivot Har Etzion Advanced Talmudic College. For many years, he authored the weekly online publications for the Virtual Beit Midrash of Yeshivat Har Etzion. Some of these articles will soon appear in book form. Prior to making aliyah, Michael served as Director of Outreach & Adult Education for the Golf Manor Synagogue of Cincinnati, Ohio, and he continues to lecture as a scholar-in-residence at various synagogues and Jewish organizations in North America.

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5768 — Shoftim: Jewish Perspective on Warfare

Monday, August 9th, 2010

This week Rabbi Meir Schweiger discusses parshat Shoftim.

This is a reprise podcast from two years ago by Rabbi Schweiger.

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Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Trudy Greener – Production Coordinator
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Schweiger
Rabbi Meir Schweiger is a Senior Faculty Member and the Mashgiach Ruchani (the spiritual guide) of the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem. He has been a full-time teacher there for the last 31 years, teaching Chumash, Mishna, Talmud, and Halacha. He is a dynamic and inspiring speaker, known for his keen and profound insights into the text. Meir has a BA in mathematics and physics from City College in New York. He did his advanced Jewish studies at Yeshiva University, Yeshivat Kerem B’Yavneh, and Yeshivat Har Etzion, receiving ordination from Rabbi Zalman Nehemiah Goldberg of Jerusalem. Meir served in the IDF as a combat medic. He has 9 children and lives in Efrat.

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5770 — Re’eh: The New and the Free

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

This week Rabbi David Levin-Kruss discusses Parshat Re’eh.

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Trudy Greener – Production Coordinator
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Levin-Kruss
Rabbi David Levin-Kruss is a faculty member and the Director of Special Programs for the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem.

Rabbi Levin-Kruss holds a BA and Teachers’ Certification in English Literature and Jewish Thought from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, attended Pardes, and has rabbinic ordination from the Joseph Strauss Rabbinical Seminary. Previously, he served as the director of the overseas department at the Melitz Centers for Jewish Zionist Education, and as the community director of Stanmore Synagogue, in northwest London. Rabbi Levin-Kruss teaches Mishna and Jewish Thought at Pardes, and sees himself as a bridge between Jewish heritage and those seeking to connect or reconnect to that tradition.

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