It’s not to late to join us in Israel for a summer course at Pardes. It’ll be a summer you’ll never forget. Find out more by Googling for Pardes Summer.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us:
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For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Israel
Rabbi Alex Israel has a BSc from the London School of Economics, a PGCE from London’s Institute of Education, and is working on a MA in Talmud at Bar Ilan University. He studied and taught at Yeshivat Har Etzion Advanced Talmudic College and received rabbinic ordination from the Israeli Rabbinate. Rabbi Israel has taught at Midreshet Harova and Midreshet Lindenbaum. He currently teaches at Pardes and Yeshivat Eretz Hatzvi. He is a Rabbi of Tzohar, an organization promoting dialogue and improved relations between religious and secular Israelis. He blogs and sends weekly Parsha emails to many hundreds of readers around the globe.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – 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.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
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Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – 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.

Please support the podcast! Donate online at anytime via www.donate.pardesusa.org Thank you!

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us:
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Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Hattin
Rabbi Michael Hattin is a member of the Pardes faculty, his focus is the Tanakh. He has a professional degree in architecture from the University of Toronto and completed his semicha studies at Yeshivat Har Etzion. He has been teaching Tanakh for twenty years and serves as the Director of the Beit Midrash for the Pardes Educators Program. His book on Parasha, a refreshing integration of modern scholarship and traditional texts, will be available in early 2012 from Urim Publications. In addition, his book on Sefer Yehoshua is forthcoming from Koren Publishers. Michael also serves as a scholar-in-residence at various North American synagogues. He lives in Alon Shevut with his wife Rivka and their five children.

This is a reprise podcast from 2006. We’ll return with a new podcast next week.

Blogs mentioned in the podcast:
theseandthose.pardes.org, the Pardes Student Blog
Post about training as a slaughterer

thinkingtorah.blogspot.com, Rabbi Alex Israel’s blog
Post about a magical night at the Kotel

Please consider a donation in support of the podcast series. Your generous gift, of any amount, is very much appreciated. Donate on-line via www.donate.pardesusa.org

Thank you.

And thanks for telling your friends about this podcast series; remember that they do not need an ipod to enjoy it. — Any computer with speakers can be used.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
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Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Schweiger
Meir Schweiger is a senior faculty member and the Mashgiach Ruchani (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.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – 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.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – 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.

Spend three weeks in the Pardes Summer Program falling in love with Jewish text by day and with Jerusalem culture by night. Find out more at www.pardes.org.il/programs/summer/

Rabbi Yehuda HaNassi: The Prince, The Book and the Secret of Jewish Survival. Join us for the 15th Annual Executive Learning Seminar, this summer, July 1-5. Explore Jewish text and Jerusalem with the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies. For more information, visit us at www.pardes.org.il.

Please consider a donation in support of the podcast series. Your generous gift, of any amount, is very much appreciated. Donate on-line via www.donate.pardesusa.org

Thank you.

And thanks for telling your friends about this podcast series; remember that they do not need an ipod to enjoy it. — Any computer with speakers can be used.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
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For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Schweiger
Meir Schweiger is a senior faculty member and the Mashgiach Ruchani (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.

Updated!
An new version of the d’var Torah is now available. It was written by Tovah Leah for her “students, friends, and family.” Download it here.

The original version of the D’var Torah was written for educators.
Read the d’var Torah for educators.

About Tovah Leah Nachmani

Ms. Nachmani holds a BA in Near Eastern Language and Literature and Religious Studies from Indiana University and a Teaching Certification in Tanach and Jewish Thought from the Israeli “Michlelet Herzog” Seminary in Gush Etzion.

At Pardes, Ms. Nachmani teaches Chumash, Tanach, Prayer and Interpersonal Relationships. She has written and guided experiential learning programs for mothers and their daughters of Bat Mitzva age at the Women’s Beit Midrash in Efrat, where she previously taught Prayer and Jewish Thought.

Ms. Nachmani was a Jewish educator and program director for many years, together with her husband Gabi, for “Livnot U’Lehibanot” (“To Build and Be Built”) in Tzfat and Jerusalem. They co-authored the widely-used song book “Zemirot from Livnot”. Currently she is Assistant Educational Director for “Ayeka” – an international organization training Jewish lay and professional leaders to facilitate “Ayeka” spiritual education seminars for Jews of all backgrounds and affiliations. She believes in learning which connects the mind to the heart.

Download the flyer and see www.pardes.org.il/executive for complete details.

Contact Talia Braun in New York, 212.447.4333 or Robby Grossman in Jerusalem, +972.2.623.5210

You owe it to yourself to study Torah this year in Jerusalem at Pardes.

Please join the Pardes faculty for this year’s Executive Learning Seminar in Jerusalem, July 1-5.
See www.pardes.org.il/executive for complete details. Or contact Talia Braun in New York, 212.447.4333 or Robby Grossman in Jerusalem, +972.2.623.5210

You owe it to yourself to study Torah this year in Jerusalem at Pardes.

Please consider a donation to Pardes in honor of the podcast! You can donate online at any time via donate.pardesusa.org

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
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Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Neima Novetsky
Neima Novetsky is a faculty member for the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem. Her focus is Tanakh.

Ms. Novetsky holds a BA in Religion and a Certificate in Language and Culture from Princeton University, and an MA in Bible from the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University. Prior to making Aliyah from New York, Ms. Novetsky founded and directed the Advanced Tanakh Beit Midrash Program at Lincoln Square Synagogue. She has taught at Midreshet Lindenbaum, the Ma’ayan Institute for Women, and the Princeton University Hillel, and has lectured on Biblical topics in various synagogues in both Israel and the States.

Are you looking to supplement your Masters in Jewish Education (or a related field) with a year of intensive classical Jewish text study at Pardes? Find out more about MAPP: the MA Plus Pardes program at www.pardes.org.il. All new from the Pardes Center for Jewish Educators.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us:
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Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Israel
Rabbi Alex Israel has a BSc from the London School of Economics, a PGCE from London’s Institute of Education, and is working on a MA in Talmud at Bar Ilan University. He studied and taught at Yeshivat Har Etzion Advanced Talmudic College and received rabbinic ordination from the Israeli Rabbinate. Rabbi Israel has taught at Midreshet Harova and Midreshet Lindenbaum. He currently teaches at Pardes and Yeshivat Eretz Hatzvi. He is a Rabbi of Tzohar, an organization promoting dialogue and improved relations between religious and secular Israelis. He blogs and sends weekly Parsha emails to many hundreds of readers around the globe.

Please support the podcast! Donate online at anytime via www.donate.pardesusa.org Thank you!

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Hattin
Rabbi Michael Hattin is a member of the Pardes faculty, his focus is the Tanakh. He has a professional degree in architecture from the University of Toronto and completed his semicha studies at Yeshivat Har Etzion. He has been teaching Tanakh for twenty years and serves as the Director of the Beit Midrash for the Pardes Educators Program. His book on Parasha, a refreshing integration of modern scholarship and traditional texts, will be available in early 2012 from Urim Publications. In addition, his book on Sefer Yehoshua is forthcoming from Koren Publishers. Michael also serves as a scholar-in-residence at various North American synagogues. He lives in Alon Shevut with his wife Rivka and their five children.

There is a handout for this podcast, see the next podcast episode.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – 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.

Please support the podcast! Donate online at anytime via www.donate.pardesusa.org Thank you!

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Hattin
Rabbi Michael Hattin is a member of the Pardes faculty, his focus is the Tanakh. He has a professional degree in architecture from the University of Toronto and completed his semicha studies at Yeshivat Har Etzion. He has been teaching Tanakh for twenty years and serves as the Director of the Beit Midrash for the Pardes Educators Program. His book on Parasha, a refreshing integration of modern scholarship and traditional texts, will be available in early 2012 from Urim Publications. In addition, his book on Sefer Yehoshua is forthcoming from Koren Publishers. Michael also serves as a scholar-in-residence at various North American synagogues. He lives in Alon Shevut with his wife Rivka and their five children.

Are you passionate about changing the Jewish world, one classroom at a time? Or do you know someone else who is? Learn more about Pardes’ vibrant, innovative, and highly selective Jewish day school teacher training program at www.pardes.org.il/programs/educators. The program includes a full tution scholarship and a stipend. Training excellent day school teachers since 2000.

About Rabbi Jacobson-Maisels
Rabbi James Jacobson-Maisels is a faculty member at Pardes. His focus is Jewish Mysticism.

Rabbi James Jacobson-Maisels holds a BA in Philosophy and Judaic Studies from Brown University and an M.St. in Modern Jewish Studies from Balliol College, University of Oxford. He studied at the Conservative Yeshiva, the Hartman Institute of Jewish Studies, and in the Advanced Learning Seminar at Pardes and received rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Daniel Landes. He is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Chicago in Jewish Studies specializing in Jewish mysticism. He has taught in a variety of settings in America and Israel on Judaism and Jewish Mysticism.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
info -at- pardes.il.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

Please consider a donation in support of the podcast series. Your generous gift, of any amount, is very much appreciated. Donate on-line via www.donate.pardesusa.org

Thank you.

And thanks for telling your friends about this podcast series; remember that they do not need an ipod to enjoy it. — Any computer with speakers can be used.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Dr. Meesh Hammer-Kossoy
Dr. Hammer-Kossoy teaches Talmud as a member of the Pardes faculty. She also serves as the Director of Admissions for Pardes. Dr. Hammer-Kossoy has an AB in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University, and a MA and PhD from New York University. Her dissertation explored the courageous manner in which the rabbis of the Talmud created a new criminal punishment system. Dr. Hammer-Kossoy is also a graduate of NATIV, Pardes, Midreshet Lindenbaum, MaTaN, Drisha, and ATID. She has received many fellowships including Lady Davis, National Foundation for Jewish Culture, Memorial Foundation, ATID. Dr. Hammer-Kossoy has also taught at NYU, Drisha, and Midreshet Lindenbaum.

Please support the podcast! Donate online at anytime via www.donate.pardesusa.org Thank you!

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

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.

Rabbi Yehuda HaNassi: The Prince, The Book and the Secret of Jewish Survival. Join us for the 15th Annual Executive Learning Seminar, this summer, July 1-5. Explore Jewish text and Jerusalem with the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies. For more information, visit us at www.pardes.org.il.

Please consider a donation in support of the podcast series. Your generous gift, of any amount, is very much appreciated. Donate on-line via www.donate.pardesusa.org

Thank you.

And thanks for telling your friends about this podcast series; remember that they do not need an ipod to enjoy it. — Any computer with speakers can be used.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Schweiger
Meir Schweiger is a senior faculty member and the Mashgiach Ruchani (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.

Pardes Faculty Members Across America

Thursday February 16
Rabbi Daniel Landes in Berkeley, CA
Dance Theology
Graduate Theological Seminary
12:30 PM
www.gtu.edu

Friday-Sunday, February 17-19
Rabbi Zvi Hirschfield at Limmud LA
www.limmudla.org

Shabbat, February 18-19
Rabbi Daniel Landes in San Francisco, CA
Congregation Emanu-El
2 Lake Street
www.emanuelsf.org

Sunday-Monday, February 19-20
Rabbi Daniel Landes at Limmud Bay Area
www.limmudbayarea.org

Tuesday February 21
Rabbi Zvi Hirschfield in San Francisco, CA
From a “Place” of Anger or Renewal: The Last words of Rabbi Eliezer
Home of Pardes alumna and G-dcast founder/producer Sarah Lefton (www.g-dcast.com)
8:00 PM
Email naomi -at- pardes . org.il for directions, and to RSVP.

Thursday February 23
Yaffa Epstein in Vancouver, Canada
Ugly Men and Beautiful Rabbis: What is beauty in Judaism?
Moishe House Vancouver
7:30 PM
Email moishehousevancouver -at- gmail .com for directions, and to RSVP.

Shabbat, February 24-25
Yaffa Epstein in Vancouver, Canada
Congregation Schara Tzedeck
scharatzedeck.com

Monday February 27
Yaffa Epstein in Philadelphia, PA
Truth, Myth and the Construction of the Ideal Jewish Woman
“Topics on Tap,” sponsored by Moishe House Philly, The Collaborative, and Hillel’s Jewish Grad Network
The Black Sheep Pub, 247 S. 17th Street
7:00 PM
Email moishehousephilly -at- gmail .com to RSVP.

Please consider a donation to Pardes in honor of the podcast! You can donate online at any time via donate.pardesusa.org

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Neima Novetsky
Neima Novetsky is a faculty member for the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem. Her focus is Tanakh.

Ms. Novetsky holds a BA in Religion and a Certificate in Language and Culture from Princeton University, and an MA in Bible from the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University. Prior to making Aliyah from New York, Ms. Novetsky founded and directed the Advanced Tanakh Beit Midrash Program at Lincoln Square Synagogue. She has taught at Midreshet Lindenbaum, the Ma’ayan Institute for Women, and the Princeton University Hillel, and has lectured on Biblical topics in various synagogues in both Israel and the States.

Please support the podcast! Donate online at anytime via www.donate.pardesusa.org Thank you!

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Israel
Rabbi Alex Israel has a BSc from the London School of Economics, a PGCE from London’s Institute of Education, and is working on a MA in Talmud at Bar Ilan University. He studied and taught at Yeshivat Har Etzion Advanced Talmudic College and received rabbinic ordination from the Israeli Rabbinate. Rabbi Israel has taught at Midreshet Harova and Midreshet Lindenbaum. He currently teaches at Pardes and Yeshivat Eretz Hatzvi. He is a Rabbi of Tzohar, an organization promoting dialogue and improved relations between religious and secular Israelis. He blogs and sends weekly Parsha emails to many hundreds of readers around the globe.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Roth
Rabbi Daniel Roth teaches Talmud and serves as the Director of the Pardes Center for Judaism and Conflict Resolution. Daniel also is the coordinator and teacher of the Pardes Peace and Conflict Track. He holds an MA in Talmud from Hebrew University, a B.Ed in Jewish Philosophy and Talmud from Herzog Teachers’ College, and is currently pursuing a doctorate in Bar Ilan University’s Conflict Resolution and Negotiation Department on the topic of Rabbinic Models of Reconciliation. Daniel has been teaching Talmud, Chumash and other subjects at Pardes for the past nine years, and studied for eight years in Yeshivat Har-Etzion, during which time he received semicha.

There is a handout for this podcast, see the next podcast episode.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
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For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – 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.

Thank you for your generosity. You can donate on-line at any time via donate.pardesusa.org

Please support the podcast! Donate online at anytime via www.donate.pardesusa.org Thank you!

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

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.

Please consider a gift to Pardes!
You can donate on-line, at any time via http://donate.pardesusa.org
Your gift, of any size, will make a real difference. Thank you very much for your support!

About Rabbi Jacobson-Maisels
Rabbi James Jacobson-Maisels is a faculty member at Pardes. His focus is Jewish Mysticism.

Rabbi James Jacobson-Maisels holds a BA in Philosophy and Judaic Studies from Brown University and an M.St. in Modern Jewish Studies from Balliol College, University of Oxford. He studied at the Conservative Yeshiva, the Hartman Institute of Jewish Studies, and in the Advanced Learning Seminar at Pardes and received rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Daniel Landes. He is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Chicago in Jewish Studies specializing in Jewish mysticism. He has taught in a variety of settings in America and Israel on Judaism and Jewish Mysticism.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
info -at- pardes.il.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

Please consider a donation to Pardes in honor of the podcast! You can donate online at any time via donate.pardesusa.org

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Neima Novetsky
Neima Novetsky is a faculty member for the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem. Her focus is Tanakh.

Ms. Novetsky holds a BA in Religion and a Certificate in Language and Culture from Princeton University, and an MA in Bible from the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University. Prior to making Aliyah from New York, Ms. Novetsky founded and directed the Advanced Tanakh Beit Midrash Program at Lincoln Square Synagogue. She has taught at Midreshet Lindenbaum, the Ma’ayan Institute for Women, and the Princeton University Hillel, and has lectured on Biblical topics in various synagogues in both Israel and the States.

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Sexual violence is discussed in this podcast.

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Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Dr. Meesh Hammer-Kossoy
Dr. Hammer-Kossoy teaches Talmud as a member of the Pardes faculty. She also serves as the Director of Admissions for Pardes. Dr. Hammer-Kossoy has an AB in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University, and a MA and PhD from New York University. Her dissertation explored the courageous manner in which the rabbis of the Talmud created a new criminal punishment system. Dr. Hammer-Kossoy is also a graduate of NATIV, Pardes, Midreshet Lindenbaum, MaTaN, Drisha, and ATID. She has received many fellowships including Lady Davis, National Foundation for Jewish Culture, Memorial Foundation, ATID. Dr. Hammer-Kossoy has also taught at NYU, Drisha, and Midreshet Lindenbaum.

Please consider a donation in support of the podcast series. Your generous gift, of any amount, is very much appreciated. Donate on-line via www.donate.pardesusa.org

Thank you.

And thanks for telling your friends about this podcast series; remember that they do not need an ipod to enjoy it. — Any computer with speakers can be used.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
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Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Schweiger
Meir Schweiger is a senior faculty member and the Mashgiach Ruchani (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.

This is a reprise podcast from 5766–2005.

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Rachel Isaacs – Producer and Recording Engineer
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Schweiger
Meir Schweiger is a rabbi and the Mashgiach Ruchani (spiritual guide) of the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem. He has been a full-time teacher there for the last 27 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.

Please support the podcast! Donate online at anytime via www.donate.pardesusa.org Thank you!

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us:
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Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Israel
Rabbi Alex Israel has a BSc from the London School of Economics, a PGCE from London’s Institute of Education, and is working on a MA in Talmud at Bar Ilan University. He studied and taught at Yeshivat Har Etzion Advanced Talmudic College and received rabbinic ordination from the Israeli Rabbinate. Rabbi Israel has taught at Midreshet Harova and Midreshet Lindenbaum. He currently teaches at Pardes and Yeshivat Eretz Hatzvi. He is a Rabbi of Tzohar, an organization promoting dialogue and improved relations between religious and secular Israelis. He blogs and sends weekly Parsha emails to many hundreds of readers around the globe.

Rabbi Daniel Landes in New York!
Melekhet Makhshevet: Integrating Judaism and our Lives at Work
Tuesday, November 15th 7:30-9:00 PM
Drisha: 37 West 65th Street, 5th Floor

What is the value of work? Does Judaism have a notion of a “calling?” How can I be a more moral boss, employee, and colleague? Can any job be part of a spiritual path? Whether you’re deciding on a career path or already on one, join Rabbi Landes in the Drisha beit midrash to examine how you can integrate the wisdom of Jewish tradition into your work day. Through intensive text study and rich conversation, we will put mindfulness to work, and challenge our community to enrich the workplace with Judaism’s teachings and core values. Come join the discussion!

Rabbi Landes is the third speaker in this lecture series beginning November 1st; you may register for individual sessions ($10 each) by emailing inquiry@drisha.org or calling 212-595-0307. Tuition for all four sessions is $36; other featured speakers are David Silber, Shalom Carmy, Sarah Rinder, Joe Septimus, and more!

Check out the Drisha website for more information.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
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Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Neima Novetsky
Neima Novetsky is a faculty member for the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem. Her focus is Tanakh.

Ms. Novetsky holds a BA in Religion and a Certificate in Language and Culture from Princeton University, and an MA in Bible from the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University. Prior to making Aliyah from New York, Ms. Novetsky founded and directed the Advanced Tanakh Beit Midrash Program at Lincoln Square Synagogue. She has taught at Midreshet Lindenbaum, the Ma’ayan Institute for Women, and the Princeton University Hillel, and has lectured on Biblical topics in various synagogues in both Israel and the States.

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Rachel Isaacs – Producer and Recording Engineer
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Robby Grossman – Executive Producer
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us:
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Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Schweiger
Meir Schweiger is a rabbi 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.

About Rabbi Jacobson-Maisels
Rabbi James Jacobson-Maisels is a faculty member at Pardes. His focus is Jewish Mysticism.

Rabbi James Jacobson-Maisels holds a BA in Philosophy and Judaic Studies from Brown University and an M.St. in Modern Jewish Studies from Balliol College, University of Oxford. He studied at the Conservative Yeshiva, the Hartman Institute of Jewish Studies, and in the Advanced Learning Seminar at Pardes and received rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Daniel Landes. He is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Chicago in Jewish Studies specializing in Jewish mysticism. He has taught in a variety of settings in America and Israel on Judaism and Jewish Mysticism.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
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Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

Please consider a donation in support of the podcast series. Your generous gift, of any amount, is very much appreciated. Donate on-line via www.donate.pardesusa.org

Thank you.

And thanks for telling your friends about this podcast series; remember that they do not need an ipod to enjoy it. — Any computer with speakers can be used.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Dr. Meesh Hammer-Kossoy
Dr. Hammer-Kossoy teaches Talmud as a member of the Pardes faculty. She also serves as the Director of Admissions for Pardes. Dr. Hammer-Kossoy has an AB in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University, and a MA and PhD from New York University. Her dissertation explored the courageous manner in which the rabbis of the Talmud created a new criminal punishment system. Dr. Hammer-Kossoy is also a graduate of NATIV, Pardes, Midreshet Lindenbaum, MaTaN, Drisha, and ATID. She has received many fellowships including Lady Davis, National Foundation for Jewish Culture, Memorial Foundation, ATID. Dr. Hammer-Kossoy has also taught at NYU, Drisha, and Midreshet Lindenbaum.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Landes
Rabbi Daniel Landes is the Director of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies.

Rabbi Landes 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.” Rabbi Landes heads the Pardes team of outstanding scholars who are well-known for their use of unique educational methodology that combine independent thinking and deep understanding with sensitivity to contemporary relevance.

Rabbi Landes was a founding faculty member and Director of Educational Projects at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and a professor of Ethics and Values at Yeshiva University of Los Angeles. He taught Jewish Law at Loyola Law School, and 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. Rabbi Landes remains a long-term faculty member of the Wexner Foundation and serves on the educational advisory committee of Taglit-birthright Israel.

Rabbi 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, Bane-David Judaea, was known for Jewish inclusiveness, feminism, social action, and Halakhic observance. Rabbi Landes has written widely in the area of social ethics, theology and mysticism, and is the Jewish law commentator for the recent series, “My People’s Prayerbook,” a multi-denominational effort.

Please consider a donation in support of the podcast series. Your generous gift, of any amount, is very much appreciated. Donate on-line via www.donate.pardesusa.org

Thank you.

And thanks for telling your friends about this podcast series; remember that they do not need an ipod to enjoy it. — Any computer with speakers can be used.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Schweiger
Meir Schweiger is a senior faculty member and the Mashgiach Ruchani (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.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Neima Novetsky
Neima Novetsky is a faculty member for the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem. Her focus is Tanakh.

Ms. Novetsky holds a BA in Religion and a Certificate in Language and Culture from Princeton University, and an MA in Bible from the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University. Prior to making Aliyah from New York, Ms. Novetsky founded and directed the Advanced Tanakh Beit Midrash Program at Lincoln Square Synagogue. She has taught at Midreshet Lindenbaum, the Ma’ayan Institute for Women, and the Princeton University Hillel, and has lectured on Biblical topics in various synagogues in both Israel and the States.

Please support the podcast! Donate online at anytime via www.donate.pardesusa.org Thank you!

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Israel
Rabbi Alex Israel has a BSc from the London School of Economics, a PGCE from London’s Institute of Education, and is working on a MA in Talmud at Bar Ilan University. He studied and taught at Yeshivat Har Etzion Advanced Talmudic College and received rabbinic ordination from the Israeli Rabbinate. Rabbi Israel has taught at Midreshet Harova and Midreshet Lindenbaum. He currently teaches at Pardes and Yeshivat Eretz Hatzvi. He is a Rabbi of Tzohar, an organization promoting dialogue and improved relations between religious and secular Israelis. He blogs and sends weekly Parsha emails to many hundreds of readers around the globe

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Roth
Rabbi Daniel Roth teaches Talmud and serves as the Director of the Pardes Advanced Scholars Program (Kollel). Daniel also is the coordinator and teacher of the Pardes Peace and Conflict Track. He holds an MA in Talmud from Hebrew University, a B.Ed in Jewish Philosophy and Talmud from Herzog Teachers’ College, and is currently pursuing a doctorate in Bar Ilan University’s Conflict Resolution and Negotiation Department on the topic of Rabbinic Models of Reconciliation. Daniel has been teaching Talmud, Chumash and other subjects at Pardes for the past nine years, and studied for eight years in Yeshivat Har-Etzion, during which time he received semicha.

Please support the podcast! Donate online at anytime via www.donate.pardesusa.org Thank you!

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

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.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Landes
Rabbi Daniel Landes is the Director and Rosh HaYeshiva of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies.

Rabbi Landes 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.” Rabbi Landes heads the Pardes team of outstanding scholars who are well-known for their use of unique educational methodology that combine independent thinking and deep understanding with sensitivity to contemporary relevance.

Rabbi Landes was a founding faculty member and Director of Educational Projects at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and a professor of Ethics and Values at Yeshiva University of Los Angeles. He taught Jewish Law at Loyola Law School, and 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. Rabbi Landes remains a long-term faculty member of the Wexner Foundation and serves on the educational advisory committee of Taglit-birthright Israel.

Rabbi 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, Bane-David Judaea, was known for Jewish inclusiveness, feminism, social action, and Halakhic observance. Rabbi Landes has written widely in the area of social ethics, theology and mysticism, and is the Jewish law commentator for the recent series, “My People’s Prayerbook,” a multi-denominational effort.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Landes
Rabbi Daniel Landes is the Director and Rosh HaYeshiva of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies.

Rabbi Landes 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.” Rabbi Landes heads the Pardes team of outstanding scholars who are well-known for their use of unique educational methodology that combine independent thinking and deep understanding with sensitivity to contemporary relevance.

Rabbi Landes was a founding faculty member and Director of Educational Projects at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and a professor of Ethics and Values at Yeshiva University of Los Angeles. He taught Jewish Law at Loyola Law School, and 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. Rabbi Landes remains a long-term faculty member of the Wexner Foundation and serves on the educational advisory committee of Taglit-birthright Israel.

Rabbi 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, Bane-David Judaea, was known for Jewish inclusiveness, feminism, social action, and Halakhic observance. Rabbi Landes has written widely in the area of social ethics, theology and mysticism, and is the Jewish law commentator for the recent series, “My People’s Prayerbook,” a multi-denominational effort.

Please consider a donation in support of the podcast series. Your generous gift, of any amount, is very much appreciated. Donate on-line via www.donate.pardesusa.org

Thank you.

And thanks for telling your friends about this podcast series; remember that they do not need an ipod to enjoy it. — Any computer with speakers can be used.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Schweiger
Meir Schweiger is a senior faculty member and the Mashgiach Ruchani (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.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Neima Novetsky
Neima Novetsky is a faculty member for the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem. Her focus is Tanakh.

Ms. Novetsky holds a BA in Religion and a Certificate in Language and Culture from Princeton University, and an MA in Bible from the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University. Prior to making Aliyah from New York, Ms. Novetsky founded and directed the Advanced Tanakh Beit Midrash Program at Lincoln Square Synagogue. She has taught at Midreshet Lindenbaum, the Ma’ayan Institute for Women, and the Princeton University Hillel, and has lectured on Biblical topics in various synagogues in both Israel and the States.

Please support the podcast! Donate online at anytime via www.donate.pardesusa.org Thank you!

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Israel
Rabbi Alex Israel has a BSc from the London School of Economics, a PGCE from London’s Institute of Education, and is working on a MA in Talmud at Bar Ilan University. He studied and taught at Yeshivat Har Etzion Advanced Talmudic College and received rabbinic ordination from the Israeli Rabbinate. Rabbi Israel has taught at Midreshet Harova and Midreshet Lindenbaum. He currently teaches at Pardes and Yeshivat Eretz Hatzvi. He is a Rabbi of Tzohar, an organization promoting dialogue and improved relations between religious and secular Israelis. He blogs and sends weekly Parsha emails to many hundreds of readers around the globe

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Roth
Rabbi Daniel Roth teaches Talmud and serves as the Director of the Pardes Advanced Scholars Program (Kollel). Daniel also is the coordinator and teacher of the Pardes Peace and Conflict Track. He holds an MA in Talmud from Hebrew University, a B.Ed in Jewish Philosophy and Talmud from Herzog Teachers’ College, and is currently pursuing a doctorate in Bar Ilan University’s Conflict Resolution and Negotiation Department on the topic of Rabbinic Models of Reconciliation. Daniel has been teaching Talmud, Chumash and other subjects at Pardes for the past nine years, and studied for eight years in Yeshivat Har-Etzion, during which time he received semicha.

This is a reprise podcast from 5769 (2009).

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Landes
Rabbi Daniel Landes is the Director and Rosh HaYeshiva of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies.

Rabbi Landes 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.” Rabbi Landes heads the Pardes team of outstanding scholars who are well-known for their use of unique educational methodology that combine independent thinking and deep understanding with sensitivity to contemporary relevance.

Rabbi Landes was a founding faculty member and Director of Educational Projects at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and a professor of Ethics and Values at Yeshiva University of Los Angeles. He taught Jewish Law at Loyola Law School, and 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. Rabbi Landes remains a long-term faculty member of the Wexner Foundation and serves on the educational advisory committee of Taglit-birthright Israel.

Rabbi 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, Bane-David Judaea, was known for Jewish inclusiveness, feminism, social action, and Halakhic observance. Rabbi Landes has written widely in the area of social ethics, theology and mysticism, and is the Jewish law commentator for the recent series, “My People’s Prayerbook,” a multi-denominational effort.

Please support the podcast! Donate online at anytime via www.donate.pardesusa.org Thank you!

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

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.

Please consider a donation in support of the podcast series. Your generous gift, of any amount, is very much appreciated. Donate on-line via www.donate.pardesusa.org

And please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Landes
Rabbi Daniel Landes is the Director and Rosh HaYeshiva of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies.

Rabbi Landes 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.” Rabbi Landes heads the Pardes team of outstanding scholars who are well-known for their use of unique educational methodology that combine independent thinking and deep understanding with sensitivity to contemporary relevance.

Rabbi Landes was a founding faculty member and Director of Educational Projects at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and a professor of Ethics and Values at Yeshiva University of Los Angeles. He taught Jewish Law at Loyola Law School, and 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. Rabbi Landes remains a long-term faculty member of the Wexner Foundation and serves on the educational advisory committee of Taglit-birthright Israel.

Rabbi 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, Bane-David Judaea, was known for Jewish inclusiveness, feminism, social action, and Halakhic observance. Rabbi Landes has written widely in the area of social ethics, theology and mysticism, and is the Jewish law commentator for the recent series, “My People’s Prayerbook,” a multi-denominational effort.

Please consider a donation in support of the podcast series. Your generous gift, of any amount, is very much appreciated. Donate on-line via www.donate.pardesusa.org

Thank you.

And thanks for telling your friends about this podcast series; remember that they do not need an ipod to enjoy it. — Any computer with speakers can be used.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Schweiger
Meir Schweiger is a senior faculty member and the Mashgiach Ruchani (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.

Please consider a donation in support of the podcast series. Your generous gift, of any amount, is very much appreciated. Donate on-line via www.donate.pardesusa.org

Thank you.

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Credits
Rachel Isaacs – Producer and Recording Engineer
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Schweiger
Meir Schweiger is a senior faculty member and the Mashgiach Ruchani (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.

Please consider a donation in support of the podcast series. Your generous gift, of any amount, is very much appreciated. Donate on-line via www.donate.pardesusa.org

And please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Landes
Rabbi Daniel Landes is the Director and Rosh HaYeshiva of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies.

Rabbi Landes 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.” Rabbi Landes heads the Pardes team of outstanding scholars who are well-known for their use of unique educational methodology that combine independent thinking and deep understanding with sensitivity to contemporary relevance.

Rabbi Landes was a founding faculty member and Director of Educational Projects at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and a professor of Ethics and Values at Yeshiva University of Los Angeles. He taught Jewish Law at Loyola Law School, and 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. Rabbi Landes remains a long-term faculty member of the Wexner Foundation and serves on the educational advisory committee of Taglit-birthright Israel.

Rabbi 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, Bane-David Judaea, was known for Jewish inclusiveness, feminism, social action, and Halakhic observance. Rabbi Landes has written widely in the area of social ethics, theology and mysticism, and is the Jewish law commentator for the recent series, “My People’s Prayerbook,” a multi-denominational effort.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Neima Novetsky
Neima Novetsky is a faculty member for the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem. Her focus is Tanakh.

Ms. Novetsky holds a BA in Religion and a Certificate in Language and Culture from Princeton University, and an MA in Bible from the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University. Prior to making Aliyah from New York, Ms. Novetsky founded and directed the Advanced Tanakh Beit Midrash Program at Lincoln Square Synagogue. She has taught at Midreshet Lindenbaum, the Ma’ayan Institute for Women, and the Princeton University Hillel, and has lectured on Biblical topics in various synagogues in both Israel and the States.

Please consider a donation in support of the podcast series. Your generous gift, of any amount, is very much appreciated. Donate on-line via www.donate.pardesusa.org

Thank you.

And thanks for telling your friends about this podcast series; remember that they do not need an ipod to enjoy it. — Any computer with speakers can be used.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Schweiger
Meir Schweiger is a senior faculty member and the Mashgiach Ruchani (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.

About Rabbi Jacobson-Maisels
Rabbi James Jacobson-Maisels is a faculty member at Pardes. His focus is Jewish Mysticism.

Rabbi James Jacobson-Maisels holds a BA in Philosophy and Judaic Studies from Brown University and an M.St. in Modern Jewish Studies from Balliol College, University of Oxford. He studied at the Conservative Yeshiva, the Hartman Institute of Jewish Studies, and in the Advanced Learning Seminar at Pardes and received rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Daniel Landes. He is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Chicago in Jewish Studies specializing in Jewish mysticism. He has taught in a variety of settings in America and Israel on Judaism and Jewish Mysticism.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Neima Novetsky
Neima Novetsky is a faculty member for the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem. Her focus is Tanakh.

Ms. Novetsky holds a BA in Religion and a Certificate in Language and Culture from Princeton University, and an MA in Bible from the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University. Prior to making Aliyah from New York, Ms. Novetsky founded and directed the Advanced Tanakh Beit Midrash Program at Lincoln Square Synagogue. She has taught at Midreshet Lindenbaum, the Ma’ayan Institute for Women, and the Princeton University Hillel, and has lectured on Biblical topics in various synagogues in both Israel and the States.

Please consider a donation in support of the podcast series. Your generous gift, of any amount, is very much appreciated. Donate on-line via www.donate.pardesusa.org

And please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Landes
Rabbi Daniel Landes is the Director and Rosh HaYeshiva of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies.

Rabbi Landes 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.” Rabbi Landes heads the Pardes team of outstanding scholars who are well-known for their use of unique educational methodology that combine independent thinking and deep understanding with sensitivity to contemporary relevance.

Rabbi Landes was a founding faculty member and Director of Educational Projects at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and a professor of Ethics and Values at Yeshiva University of Los Angeles. He taught Jewish Law at Loyola Law School, and 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. Rabbi Landes remains a long-term faculty member of the Wexner Foundation and serves on the educational advisory committee of Taglit-birthright Israel.

Rabbi 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, Bane-David Judaea, was known for Jewish inclusiveness, feminism, social action, and Halakhic observance. Rabbi Landes has written widely in the area of social ethics, theology and mysticism, and is the Jewish law commentator for the recent series, “My People’s Prayerbook,” a multi-denominational effort.

Download

Please consider a donation in support of the podcast series. Your generous gift, of any amount, is very much appreciated. Donate on-line via www.donate.pardesusa.org

Thank you.

And thanks for telling your friends about this podcast series; remember that they do not need an ipod to enjoy it. — Any computer with speakers can be used.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Schweiger
Meir Schweiger is a senior faculty member and the Mashgiach Ruchani (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.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Michael Hattin
Michael Hattin is a Pardes faculty member, focusing on Chumash and Prophets. He holds a professional degree in architecture from the University of Toronto and completed his rabbinical studies at Yeshivat 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.

The Executive Seminar at Pardes brings together men and women from around the world who wish to combine visiting Israel with the opportunity to study classic Jewish texts and explore their relevance to our lives. Classroom study is complemented by tours throughout Israel, bringing the text to life.

We welcome participants with all levels of previous Jewish study.

Wisdom, Wealth, and 1,000 Wives: The Rise and Fall of King Solomon

From the moment of his birth, Solomon was groomed to become David’s successor to the throne. Because King David devoted his whole life to defeating Israel’s enemies and laying the foundations of a sovereign Jewish state, Solomon was able to focus his energies on peace, prosperity, and growth. Solomon’s profound wisdom and keen sense of justice made him the model king who ultimately built the ideal state. His crowning achievement was the construction of the Temple and the establishment of Jerusalem as the spiritual capital not only of the Jewish people, but of the world.

The utopia that Solomon created fell apart very quickly. Ironically, his huge accomplishments sowed the seeds of power and corruption, which eventually brought about the division of the kingdom, the two exiles of the Jewish people, and the destruction of the Temple.

Through a careful reading of a variety of biblical and rabbinic texts, we will study the personal, national, and religious issues that led to the rise and fall of both King Solomon and his model society, and explore how they may impact impact on our lives in contemporary society and on the modern State of Israel.

Topics of Study • Wisdom and Decadence – What is the relationship between wisdom and morality? Why does one not guarantee the other? • The Ideal State – What elements are vital to building an ideal state? How do they find expression in our modern state? • The Temple – What made the Temple such a central feature of Jewish peoplehood? Where is today’s hub for the Jewish people? • Aesthetics – Does the aesthetic enhance ritual or detract from it? What is the relationship between form and content? • Dangers of the Monarchy – Can they be avoided or are they inevitable? • International Relations – How did Solomon master diplomacy? Which of his techniques can we apply to our contemporary society?

For more information
web page
or call 212-447-4333 (USA) or +972 2-673-5210 (Israel)
Tell them Larry Kluger sent you.

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About Rabbi Jacobson-Maisels
Rabbi James Jacobson-Maisels is a faculty member at Pardes. His focus is Jewish Mysticism.

Rabbi James Jacobson-Maisels holds a BA in Philosophy and Judaic Studies from Brown University and an M.St. in Modern Jewish Studies from Balliol College, University of Oxford. He studied at the Conservative Yeshiva, the Hartman Institute of Jewish Studies, and in the Advanced Learning Seminar at Pardes and received rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Daniel Landes. He is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Chicago in Jewish Studies specializing in Jewish mysticism. He has taught in a variety of settings in America and Israel on Judaism and Jewish Mysticism.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

We know five! Meir Schweiger, Rahel Berkovits, Neima Novetsky, Zvi Hirschfield, and Levi Cooper are five brilliant Torah scholars who inspire their students each day in the Pardes Beit Midrash. And they are about to inspire you now with their wit, wisdom and insight in our “Tidbits from the Haggadah” video series. Click on their videos and enjoy!

Can’t see the videos? Visit podcasts.pardesusa.org on your computer, phone or pad.

We also know 620 – the number of people who have made gifts to Pardes this school year. Can we reach 1,240 people this year, not next year? We can, with your help! Click here now to support our important work in training the Jewish educators, leaders and innovators of the future.

At the conclusion of the seder, we read “Next year in Jerusalem!” Well, you still have time to make it this year by applying now for one of our programs. Come and learn with us for three unforgettable weeks this summer as part of the Summer Learning Program where you’ll get to be inspired by our renowned faculty and make friends from around the world. Or join other executives, professionals and community leaders for an action packed week of learning and touring as part of the Executive Learning Seminar.

If you have more time, why not think about coming to Israel for our Year/Semester Program? With seven learning levels, those from all learning backgrounds will be grappling with classic Jewish texts and current Jewish issues, exploring the country, volunteering in local projects and immersing themselves in the dynamic and diverse community that is unique to Pardes.

Chag Kasher V’Sameach!

Rabbi Danny Landes
Director and Rosh HaYeshiva
Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies
Jerusalem

This is a reprise podcast from 5768 / 2008.

Reference: Mary Douglas, “Leviticus as Literature.”

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
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.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

Join us at the Executive Seminar, at Pardes in Jerusalem, July 3rd – 7th, 2011

The Executive Seminar at Pardes brings together men and women from around the world who wish to combine visiting Israel with the opportunity to study classic Jewish texts and explore their relevance to our lives. Classroom study is complemented by tours throughout Israel, bringing the text to life.

We welcome participants with all levels of previous Jewish study.

Wisdom, Wealth, and 1,000 Wives: The Rise and Fall of King Solomon

From the moment of his birth, Solomon was groomed to become David’s successor to the throne. Because King David devoted his whole life to defeating Israel’s enemies and laying the foundations of a sovereign Jewish state, Solomon was able to focus his energies on peace, prosperity, and growth. Solomon’s profound wisdom and keen sense of justice made him the model king who ultimately built the ideal state. His crowning achievement was the construction of the Temple and the establishment of Jerusalem as the spiritual capital not only of the Jewish people, but of the world.

The utopia that Solomon created fell apart very quickly. Ironically, his huge accomplishments sowed the seeds of power and corruption, which eventually brought about the division of the kingdom, the two exiles of the Jewish people, and the destruction of the Temple.

Through a careful reading of a variety of biblical and rabbinic texts, we will study the personal, national, and religious issues that led to the rise and fall of both King Solomon and his model society, and explore how they may impact impact on our lives in contemporary society and on the modern State of Israel.

Topics of Study • Wisdom and Decadence – What is the relationship between wisdom and morality? Why does one not guarantee the other? • The Ideal State – What elements are vital to building an ideal state? How do they find expression in our modern state? • The Temple – What made the Temple such a central feature of Jewish peoplehood? Where is today’s hub for the Jewish people? • Aesthetics – Does the aesthetic enhance ritual or detract from it? What is the relationship between form and content? • Dangers of the Monarchy – Can they be avoided or are they inevitable? • International Relations – How did Solomon master diplomacy? Which of his techniques can we apply to our contemporary society?

For more information
web page
or call 212-447-4333 (USA) or +972 2-673-5210 (Israel)
Tell them Larry Kluger sent you.

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Neima Novetsky
Neima Novetsky is a faculty member for the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem. Her focus is Tanakh.

Ms. Novetsky holds a BA in Religion and a Certificate in Language and Culture from Princeton University, and an MA in Bible from the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University. Prior to making Aliyah from New York, Ms. Novetsky founded and directed the Advanced Tanakh Beit Midrash Program at Lincoln Square Synagogue. She has taught at Midreshet Lindenbaum, the Ma’ayan Institute for Women, and the Princeton University Hillel, and has lectured on Biblical topics in various synagogues in both Israel and the States.

Download

Please consider a donation in support of the podcast series. Your generous gift, of any amount, is very much appreciated. Donate on-line via www.donate.pardesusa.org

Thank you.

And thanks for telling your friends about this podcast series; remember that they do not need an ipod to enjoy it. — Any computer with speakers can be used.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Schweiger
Meir Schweiger is a senior faculty member and the Mashgiach Ruchani (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.

Download

Donate online at anytime to support the podcast via www.donate.pardesusa.org Thank you!

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – 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.

Please check out These And Those, the blog of the Students of Pardes

About Rabbi Jacobson-Maisels
Rabbi James Jacobson-Maisels is a faculty member at Pardes. His focus is Jewish Mysticism.

Rabbi James Jacobson-Maisels holds a BA in Philosophy and Judaic Studies from Brown University and an M.St. in Modern Jewish Studies from Balliol College, University of Oxford. He studied at the Conservative Yeshiva, the Hartman Institute of Jewish Studies, and in the Advanced Learning Seminar at Pardes and received rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Daniel Landes. He is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Chicago in Jewish Studies specializing in Jewish mysticism. He has taught in a variety of settings in America and Israel on Judaism and Jewish Mysticism.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

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

This is a reprise podcast from 5767, 2007.

Please consider a donation in support of the podcast series. Your generous gift, of any amount, is very much appreciated. Donate on-line via www.donate.pardesusa.org

Thank you.

And thanks for telling your friends about this podcast series; remember that they do not need an ipod to enjoy it. — Any computer with speakers can be used.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Schweiger
Meir Schweiger is a senior faculty member and the Mashgiach Ruchani (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.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

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

About Neima Novetsky
Neima Novetsky is a faculty member for the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem. Her focus is Tanakh.

Ms. Novetsky holds a BA in Religion and a Certificate in Language and Culture from Princeton University, and an MA in Bible from the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University. Prior to making Aliyah from New York, Ms. Novetsky founded and directed the Advanced Tanakh Beit Midrash Program at Lincoln Square Synagogue. She has taught at Midreshet Lindenbaum, the Ma’ayan Institute for Women, and the Princeton University Hillel, and has lectured on Biblical topics in various synagogues in both Israel and the States.

Please consider a donation in support of the podcast series. Your generous gift, of any amount, is very much appreciated. Donate on-line via www.donate.pardesusa.org

And please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Landes
Rabbi Daniel Landes is the Director and Rosh HaYeshiva of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies.

Rabbi Landes 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.” Rabbi Landes heads the Pardes team of outstanding scholars who are well-known for their use of unique educational methodology that combine independent thinking and deep understanding with sensitivity to contemporary relevance.

Rabbi Landes was a founding faculty member and Director of Educational Projects at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and a professor of Ethics and Values at Yeshiva University of Los Angeles. He taught Jewish Law at Loyola Law School, and 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. Rabbi Landes remains a long-term faculty member of the Wexner Foundation and serves on the educational advisory committee of Taglit-birthright Israel.

Rabbi 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, Bane-David Judaea, was known for Jewish inclusiveness, feminism, social action, and Halakhic observance. Rabbi Landes has written widely in the area of social ethics, theology and mysticism, and is the Jewish law commentator for the recent series, “My People’s Prayerbook,” a multi-denominational effort.

Download

Donate online at anytime to support the podcast via www.donate.pardesusa.org Thank you!

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
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.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

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

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.

Wisdom, Wealth, and 1,000 Wives: The Rise and Fall of King Solomon
From the moment of his birth, Solomon was groomed to become David’s successor to the throne. Because King David devoted his whole life to defeating Israel’s enemies and laying the foundations of a sovereign Jewish state, Solomon was able to focus his energies on peace, prosperity, and growth. Solomon’s profound wisdom and keen sense of justice made him the model king who ultimately built the ideal state. His crowning achievement was the construction of the Temple and the establishment of Jerusalem as the spiritual capital not only of the Jewish people, but of the world.

The utopia that Solomon created fell apart very quickly. Ironically, his huge accomplishments sowed the seeds of power and corruption, which eventually brought about the division of the kingdom, the two exiles of the Jewish people, and the destruction of the Temple.

Does this sound of interest? Then join us at the Pardes 2011 Executive Seminar in Jerusalem, July 3 – 7, 2011.
Faculty: Rabbi Daniel Landes, Rosh HaYeshiva and Director of Pardes.
Rabbi Meir Schweiger, Pardes Sr faculty member and mashgiach ruchani (spiritual guide) of Pardes.
Rabbi Zvi Hirschfield, the Director of the Pardes Educators Beit Midrash Program.

Details on the seminar Contact for more information:
Jerusalem: Trudi Greener, +972 2 673-5210
USA: Josh Chadajo, 212.447.4333

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

About Neima Novetsky
Neima Novetsky is a faculty member for the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem. Her focus is Tanakh.

Ms. Novetsky holds a BA in Religion and a Certificate in Language and Culture from Princeton University, and an MA in Bible from the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University. Prior to making Aliyah from New York, Ms. Novetsky founded and directed the Advanced Tanakh Beit Midrash Program at Lincoln Square Synagogue. She has taught at Midreshet Lindenbaum, the Ma’ayan Institute for Women, and the Princeton University Hillel, and has lectured on Biblical topics in various synagogues in both Israel and the States.

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This is a reprise podcast from 2008.

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Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
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.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

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

About Neima Novetsky
Neima Novetsky is a faculty member for the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem. Her focus is Tanakh.

Ms. Novetsky holds a BA in Religion and a Certificate in Language and Culture from Princeton University, and an MA in Bible from the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University. Prior to making Aliyah from New York, Ms. Novetsky founded and directed the Advanced Tanakh Beit Midrash Program at Lincoln Square Synagogue. She has taught at Midreshet Lindenbaum, the Ma’ayan Institute for Women, and the Princeton University Hillel, and has lectured on Biblical topics in various synagogues in both Israel and the States.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

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

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.

Please consider contributing to Pardes in honor of the podcast. Your gift will make a big difference. You can donate anytime, online, via donate.pardesusa.org

Havruta Newsletter

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Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
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.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
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.

Join us for the Pardes-Hillel Spirituality Retreat: Awakening to the Divine
January 4-9, 2011 Details

or Join us at Pardes in Jerusalem for the January Learning Seminar
Three one week seminars starting Jan 2, 2011. Details

Please consider a donation in support of the podcast series. Your generous gift, of any amount, is very much appreciated. Donate on-line via www.donate.pardesusa.org

And please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Landes
Rabbi Daniel Landes is the Director and Rosh HaYeshiva of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies.

Rabbi Landes 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.” Rabbi Landes heads the Pardes team of outstanding scholars who are well-known for their use of unique educational methodology that combine independent thinking and deep understanding with sensitivity to contemporary relevance.

Rabbi Landes was a founding faculty member and Director of Educational Projects at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and a professor of Ethics and Values at Yeshiva University of Los Angeles. He taught Jewish Law at Loyola Law School, and 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. Rabbi Landes remains a long-term faculty member of the Wexner Foundation and serves on the educational advisory committee of Taglit-birthright Israel.

Rabbi 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, Bane-David Judaea, was known for Jewish inclusiveness, feminism, social action, and Halakhic observance. Rabbi Landes has written widely in the area of social ethics, theology and mysticism, and is the Jewish law commentator for the recent series, “My People’s Prayerbook,” a multi-denominational effort.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

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

About Neima Novetsky
Neima Novetsky is a faculty member for the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem. Her focus is Tanakh.

Ms. Novetsky holds a BA in Religion and a Certificate in Language and Culture from Princeton University, and an MA in Bible from the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University. Prior to making Aliyah from New York, Ms. Novetsky founded and directed the Advanced Tanakh Beit Midrash Program at Lincoln Square Synagogue. She has taught at Midreshet Lindenbaum, the Ma’ayan Institute for Women, and the Princeton University Hillel, and has lectured on Biblical topics in various synagogues in both Israel and the States.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

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

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.

About Rabbi Jacobson-Maisels
Rabbi James Jacobson-Maisels is a faculty member at Pardes. His focus is Jewish Mysticism.

Rabbi James Jacobson-Maisels holds a BA in Philosophy and Judaic Studies from Brown University and an M.St. in Modern Jewish Studies from Balliol College, University of Oxford. He studied at the Conservative Yeshiva, the Hartman Institute of Jewish Studies, and in the Advanced Learning Seminar at Pardes and received rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Daniel Landes. He is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Chicago in Jewish Studies specializing in Jewish mysticism. He has taught in a variety of settings in America and Israel on Judaism and Jewish Mysticism.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

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

Please support the podcast! Donate online at anytime via www.donate.pardesusa.org Thank you!

JANUARY LEARNING SEMINAR 2011!
Join Pardes for a unique combination of classic text learning and contemporary relevance, where we will explore the following questions and more:
January 2-7, 2011: Who Knows One? Contemplating G-d
January 9-14, 2011: Who Knows Seven? A Shabbat Exploration
January 16-21, 2011: Who Knows Twelve? Tribe, Religion or Both?

More information and registration: http://ow.ly/2ZDnR

There is a handout for this podcast, please see the next podcast episode.

Please support the podcast! Donate online at anytime via www.donate.pardesusa.org Thank you!

JANUARY LEARNING SEMINAR 2011!
Join Pardes for a unique combination of classic text learning and contemporary relevance, where we will explore the following questions and more:
January 2-7, 2011: Who Knows One? Contemplating G-d
January 9-14, 2011: Who Knows Seven? A Shabbat Exploration
January 16-21, 2011: Who Knows Twelve? Tribe, Religion or Both?

More information and registration: http://ow.ly/2ZDnR

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
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.

This is a reprise Podcast from three years ago.

Please consider a donation in support of the podcast series. Your generous gift, of any amount, is very much appreciated. Donate on-line via www.donate.pardesusa.org

And please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Landes
Rabbi Daniel Landes is the Director and Rosh HaYeshiva of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies.

Rabbi Landes 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.” Rabbi Landes heads the Pardes team of outstanding scholars who are well-known for their use of unique educational methodology that combine independent thinking and deep understanding with sensitivity to contemporary relevance.

Rabbi Landes was a founding faculty member and Director of Educational Projects at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and a professor of Ethics and Values at Yeshiva University of Los Angeles. He taught Jewish Law at Loyola Law School, and 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. Rabbi Landes remains a long-term faculty member of the Wexner Foundation and serves on the educational advisory committee of Taglit-birthright Israel.

Rabbi 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, Bane-David Judaea, was known for Jewish inclusiveness, feminism, social action, and Halakhic observance. Rabbi Landes has written widely in the area of social ethics, theology and mysticism, and is the Jewish law commentator for the recent series, “My People’s Prayerbook,” a multi-denominational effort.

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Donate online at anytime to support the podcast via www.donate.pardesusa.org Thank you!

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
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.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

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

About Neima Novetsky
Neima Novetsky is a faculty member for the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem. Her focus is Tanakh.

Ms. Novetsky holds a BA in Religion and a Certificate in Language and Culture from Princeton University, and an MA in Bible from the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University. Prior to making Aliyah from New York, Ms. Novetsky founded and directed the Advanced Tanakh Beit Midrash Program at Lincoln Square Synagogue. She has taught at Midreshet Lindenbaum, the Ma’ayan Institute for Women, and the Princeton University Hillel, and has lectured on Biblical topics in various synagogues in both Israel and the States.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

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

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.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

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

About Rabbi Landes
Rabbi Daniel Landes is the Director and Rosh HaYeshiva of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies.

Rabbi Landes 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.” Rabbi Landes heads the Pardes team of outstanding scholars who are well-known for their use of unique educational methodology that combine independent thinking and deep understanding with sensitivity to contemporary relevance.

Rabbi Landes was a founding faculty member and Director of Educational Projects at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and a professor of Ethics and Values at Yeshiva University of Los Angeles. He taught Jewish Law at Loyola Law School, and 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. Rabbi Landes remains a long-term faculty member of the Wexner Foundation and serves on the educational advisory committee of Taglit-birthright Israel.

Rabbi 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, Bane-David Judaea, was known for Jewish inclusiveness, feminism, social action, and Halakhic observance. Rabbi Landes has written widely in the area of social ethics, theology and mysticism, and is the Jewish law commentator for the recent series, “My People’s Prayerbook,” a multi-denominational effort.

Honi the Circle Maker (B. Talmud Taanit 19a) and Rabbi Yona (B. Talmud Taanit 23b)

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

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

About Neima Novetsky
Neima Novetsky is a faculty member for the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem. Her focus is Tanakh.

Ms. Novetsky holds a BA in Religion and a Certificate in Language and Culture from Princeton University, and an MA in Bible from the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University. Prior to making Aliyah from New York, Ms. Novetsky founded and directed the Advanced Tanakh Beit Midrash Program at Lincoln Square Synagogue. She has taught at Midreshet Lindenbaum, the Ma’ayan Institute for Women, and the Princeton University Hillel, and has lectured on Biblical topics in various synagogues in both Israel and the States.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

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

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.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

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

About Rabbi Landes
Rabbi Daniel Landes is the Director and Rosh HaYeshiva of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies.

Rabbi Landes 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.” Rabbi Landes heads the Pardes team of outstanding scholars who are well-known for their use of unique educational methodology that combine independent thinking and deep understanding with sensitivity to contemporary relevance.

Rabbi Landes was a founding faculty member and Director of Educational Projects at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and a professor of Ethics and Values at Yeshiva University of Los Angeles. He taught Jewish Law at Loyola Law School, and 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. Rabbi Landes remains a long-term faculty member of the Wexner Foundation and serves on the educational advisory committee of Taglit-birthright Israel.

Rabbi 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, Bane-David Judaea, was known for Jewish inclusiveness, feminism, social action, and Halakhic observance. Rabbi Landes has written widely in the area of social ethics, theology and mysticism, and is the Jewish law commentator for the recent series, “My People’s Prayerbook,” a multi-denominational effort.

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New Year News
Happy New Year! Please support Pardes for the New Year. Pardes is a small institution, and your gift makes a real difference. Please support Pardes in its mission of open, non-denominational Torah education.

Donate online at anytime to support the podcast via www.donate.pardesusa.org Thank you!

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
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.

Please see the attached video greeting card from Pardes.

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There is a handout for this podcast, please see the next podcast episode.

Please support the podcast! Donate online at anytime via www.donate.pardesusa.org Thank you!

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us:
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For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
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.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

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

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.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

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

About Neima Novetsky
Neima Novetsky is a faculty member for the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem. Her focus is Tanakh.

Ms. Novetsky holds a BA in Religion and a Certificate in Language and Culture from Princeton University, and an MA in Bible from the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University. Prior to making Aliyah from New York, Ms. Novetsky founded and directed the Advanced Tanakh Beit Midrash Program at Lincoln Square Synagogue. She has taught at Midreshet Lindenbaum, the Ma’ayan Institute for Women, and the Princeton University Hillel, and has lectured on Biblical topics in various synagogues in both Israel and the States.

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

Please support the podcast! Donate online at anytime via www.donate.pardesusa.org Thank you!

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
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.

New Year News
Please support Pardes for the New Year. Pardes is a small institution, and your gift makes a real difference. Please support Pardes in its mission of open, non-denominational Torah education.

Donate online at anytime to support the podcast via www.donate.pardesusa.org Thank you!

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
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.

Please support the podcast! Donate online at anytime via www.donate.pardesusa.org Thank you!

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
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.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

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

About Rabbi Landes
Rabbi Daniel Landes is the Director and Rosh HaYeshiva of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies.

Rabbi Landes 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.” Rabbi Landes heads the Pardes team of outstanding scholars who are well-known for their use of unique educational methodology that combine independent thinking and deep understanding with sensitivity to contemporary relevance.

Rabbi Landes was a founding faculty member and Director of Educational Projects at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and a professor of Ethics and Values at Yeshiva University of Los Angeles. He taught Jewish Law at Loyola Law School, and 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. Rabbi Landes remains a long-term faculty member of the Wexner Foundation and serves on the educational advisory committee of Taglit-birthright Israel.

Rabbi 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, Bane-David Judaea, was known for Jewish inclusiveness, feminism, social action, and Halakhic observance. Rabbi Landes has written widely in the area of social ethics, theology and mysticism, and is the Jewish law commentator for the recent series, “My People’s Prayerbook,” a multi-denominational effort.

There is a handout for this podcast. Please see the previous episode to print it.

This is a reprise podcast from 5768.

Please support the podcast! Donate online at anytime via www.donate.pardesusa.org Thank you!

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us:
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Credits
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.

The file is also directly available: Kamza and Bar Kamza Handout

PARDES FOR A DAY!
Sunday July 18th 2010

Pardes invites you to check out the rhythm and energy of a day of learning in our Beit Midrash, located in the heart of Jerusalem.

- Learn Classical Jewish texts
- Experience Havruta (paired) learning
- Interact in an open co-ed environment
- Meet Jews from all different backgrounds

Open to men and women age 19 and up.
Cost: $10 (40nis)

For more info on “Pardes for a Day”, see
www.pardes.org.il/programs/pardesforaday or email elisa /a t/ pardes.org.il

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

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

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.

News
Double your gift! Pardes has been awarded a challenge grant by a donor! Starting immediately, new and increased donations to Pardes will be fully matched. The match is for a limited time, so please donate today.

Donate online at anytime to support the podcast via www.donate.pardesusa.org Thank you!

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
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.

This year July 4-8, 2010, the Pardes Executive Learning Seminar’s focus will be Rabbi Akiva–Romance, Repentance, Revolt, Mysticism, and Martyrdom. Don’t miss this opportunity to study in Jerusalem with Rabbis Meir Schweiger and Daniel Landes! More information: Jenna Corman, 212.447.4333 or Trudy Greener, +972.2.673.5210

Please support the podcast! Donate online at anytime via www.donate.pardesusa.org Thank you!

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
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.

PARDES FOR A DAY!
Sunday July 18th 2010

Pardes invites you to check out the rhythm and energy of a day of learning in our Beit Midrash, located in the heart of Jerusalem.

- Learn Classical Jewish texts
- Experience Havruta (paired) learning
- Interact in an open co-ed environment
- Meet Jews from all different backgrounds

Open to men and women age 19 and up.
Cost: $10 (40nis)

For more info on “Pardes for a Day”, see
www.pardes.org.il/programs/pardesforaday or email elisa /a t/ pardes.org.il

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

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

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.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

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

About Neima Novetsky
Neima Novetsky is a faculty member for the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem. Her focus is Tanakh.

Ms. Novetsky holds a BA in Religion and a Certificate in Language and Culture from Princeton University, and an MA in Bible from the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University. Prior to making Aliyah from New York, Ms. Novetsky founded and directed the Advanced Tanakh Beit Midrash Program at Lincoln Square Synagogue. She has taught at Midreshet Lindenbaum, the Ma’ayan Institute for Women, and the Princeton University Hillel, and has lectured on Biblical topics in various synagogues in both Israel and the States.

New! The program schedule for the Pardes Executive Seminar is now available.

This year, the seminar will be July 4th – 8th.
See the complete details.

Please support the podcast! Donate online at anytime via www.donate.pardesusa.org Thank you!

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

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

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.

This year July 4-8, 2010, the Pardes Executive Learning Seminar’s focus will be Rabbi Akiva–Romance, Repentance, Revolt, Mysticism, and Martyrdom. Don’t miss this opportunity to study in Jerusalem with Rabbis Meir Schweiger and Daniel Landes! More information: Jenna Corman, 212.447.4333 or Trudy Greener, +972.2.673.5210

Please support the podcast! Donate online at anytime via www.donate.pardesusa.org Thank you!

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
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.

Please support the podcast! Donate online at anytime via www.donate.pardesusa.org Thank you!

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

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

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.

Pardes Summer Sessions
New for this year, we have themes for each of the sessions:
Session 1: June 1-22, 2010 – Our Jewish Body/Our Jewish Selves
Session 2: June 30 – July 21, 2010 – I Am Me, You’re Not Me!
Session 3: July 25 – August 12, 2010 – Israel is Real

More details and view the full summer course schedules

Executive Learning Seminar, July 4-8, 2010
New: Watch what some of last year’s participants had to say about the program.

This year’s theme is Rabbi Akiva: Romance, Repentance, Revolt, Mysticism and Martyrdom. During the seminar we will explore issues including:
* The dangers and promise of mystical exploration
* Charity begins at home – What example do we set for our children?
* Martyrdom in Judaism? What about the supreme value placed on life?
* False, failed and true messiahs and their political implications
* The battle with temptation (yetzer hara)

We will be visiting, among other places, the awesome Bar-Kochba caves in Beit Guvrin, and Tzippori, once a center of Jewish religious and spirtual life in the Galilee and the birthplace of the Mishna.

To register for this wonderful program or for more details, contact Jenna Corman, 212.447.4333 or Trudy Greener, +972.2.673.5210

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

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

About Neima Novetsky
Neima Novetsky is a faculty member for the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem. Her focus is Tanakh.

Ms. Novetsky holds a BA in Religion and a Certificate in Language and Culture from Princeton University, and an MA in Bible from the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University. Prior to making Aliyah from New York, Ms. Novetsky founded and directed the Advanced Tanakh Beit Midrash Program at Lincoln Square Synagogue. She has taught at Midreshet Lindenbaum, the Ma’ayan Institute for Women, and the Princeton University Hillel, and has lectured on Biblical topics in various synagogues in both Israel and the States.

Pardes Summer Sessions
New for this year, we have themes for each of the sessions:
Session 1: June 1-22, 2010 – Our Jewish Body/Our Jewish Selves
Session 2: June 30 – July 21, 2010 – I Am Me, You’re Not Me!
Session 3: July 25 – August 12, 2010 – Israel is Real

More details and view the full summer course schedules

Executive Learning Seminar, July 4-8, 2010
New: Watch what some of last year’s participants had to say about the program.

This year’s theme is Rabbi Akiva: Romance, Repentance, Revolt, Mysticism and Martyrdom. During the seminar we will explore issues including:
* The dangers and promise of mystical exploration
* Charity begins at home – What example do we set for our children?
* Martyrdom in Judaism? What about the supreme value placed on life?
* False, failed and true messiahs and their political implications
* The battle with temptation (yetzer hara)

We will be visiting, among other places, the awesome Bar-Kochba caves in Beit Guvrin, and Tzippori, once a center of Jewish religious and spirtual life in the Galilee and the birthplace of the Mishna.

To register for this wonderful program or for more details, contact Jenna Corman, 212.447.4333 or Trudy Greener, +972.2.673.5210

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

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

About Rabbi Landes
Rabbi Daniel Landes is the Director and Rosh HaYeshiva of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies.

Rabbi Landes 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.” Rabbi Landes heads the Pardes team of outstanding scholars who are well-known for their use of unique educational methodology that combine independent thinking and deep understanding with sensitivity to contemporary relevance.

Rabbi Landes was a founding faculty member and Director of Educational Projects at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and a professor of Ethics and Values at Yeshiva University of Los Angeles. He taught Jewish Law at Loyola Law School, and 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. Rabbi Landes remains a long-term faculty member of the Wexner Foundation and serves on the educational advisory committee of Taglit-birthright Israel.

Rabbi 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, Bane-David Judaea, was known for Jewish inclusiveness, feminism, social action, and Halakhic observance. Rabbi Landes has written widely in the area of social ethics, theology and mysticism, and is the Jewish law commentator for the recent series, “My People’s Prayerbook,” a multi-denominational effort.

About Rabbi Jacobson-Maisels
Rabbi James Jacobson-Maisels is a faculty member at Pardes. His focus is Jewish Mysticism.

Rabbi James Jacobson-Maisels holds a BA in Philosophy and Judaic Studies from Brown University and an M.St. in Modern Jewish Studies from Balliol College, University of Oxford. He studied at the Conservative Yeshiva, the Hartman Institute of Jewish Studies, and in the Advanced Learning Seminar at Pardes and received rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Daniel Landes. He is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Chicago in Jewish Studies specializing in Jewish mysticism. He has taught in a variety of settings in America and Israel on Judaism and Jewish Mysticism.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

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

Please support the podcast! Donate online at anytime via www.donate.pardesusa.org Thank you!

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

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

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.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

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

About Neima Novetsky
Neima Novetsky is a faculty member for the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem. Her focus is Tanakh.

Ms. Novetsky holds a BA in Religion and a Certificate in Language and Culture from Princeton University, and an MA in Bible from the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University. Prior to making Aliyah from New York, Ms. Novetsky founded and directed the Advanced Tanakh Beit Midrash Program at Lincoln Square Synagogue. She has taught at Midreshet Lindenbaum, the Ma’ayan Institute for Women, and the Princeton University Hillel, and has lectured on Biblical topics in various synagogues in both Israel and the States.

Pardes Summer Sessions
New for this year, we have themes for each of the sessions:
Session 1: June 1-22, 2010 – Our Jewish Body/Our Jewish Selves
Session 2: June 30 – July 21, 2010 – I Am Me, You’re Not Me!
Session 3: July 25 – August 12, 2010 – Israel is Real

More details and view the full summer course schedules

Executive Learning Seminar, July 4-8, 2010
New: Watch what some of last year’s participants had to say about the program.

This year’s theme is Rabbi Akiva: Romance, Repentance, Revolt, Mysticism and Martyrdom. During the seminar we will explore issues including:
* The dangers and promise of mystical exploration
* Charity begins at home – What example do we set for our children?
* Martyrdom in Judaism? What about the supreme value placed on life?
* False, failed and true messiahs and their political implications
* The battle with temptation (yetzer hara)

We will be visiting, among other places, the awesome Bar-Kochba caves in Beit Guvrin, and Tzippori, once a center of Jewish religious and spirtual life in the Galilee and the birthplace of the Mishna.

To register for this wonderful program or for more details, contact Jenna Corman, 212.447.4333 or Trudy Greener, +972.2.673.5210

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

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

About Rabbi Landes
Rabbi Daniel Landes is the Director and Rosh HaYeshiva of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies.

Rabbi Landes 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.” Rabbi Landes heads the Pardes team of outstanding scholars who are well-known for their use of unique educational methodology that combine independent thinking and deep understanding with sensitivity to contemporary relevance.

Rabbi Landes was a founding faculty member and Director of Educational Projects at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and a professor of Ethics and Values at Yeshiva University of Los Angeles. He taught Jewish Law at Loyola Law School, and 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. Rabbi Landes remains a long-term faculty member of the Wexner Foundation and serves on the educational advisory committee of Taglit-birthright Israel.

Rabbi 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, Bane-David Judaea, was known for Jewish inclusiveness, feminism, social action, and Halakhic observance. Rabbi Landes has written widely in the area of social ethics, theology and mysticism, and is the Jewish law commentator for the recent series, “My People’s Prayerbook,” a multi-denominational effort.

This year July 4-8, 2010, the Pardes Executive Learning Seminar’s focus will be Rabbi Akiva–Romance, Repentance, Revolt, Mysticism, and Martyrdom. Don’t miss this opportunity to study in Jerusalem with Rabbis Meir Schweiger and Daniel Landes! More information: Jenna Corman, 212.447.4333 or Trudy Greener, +972.2.673.5210

Please support the podcast! Donate online at anytime via www.donate.pardesusa.org Thank you!

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
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.

About Rabbi Jacobson-Maisels
Rabbi James Jacobson-Maisels is a faculty member at Pardes. His focus is Jewish Mysticism.

Rabbi James Jacobson-Maisels holds a BA in Philosophy and Judaic Studies from Brown University and an M.St. in Modern Jewish Studies from Balliol College, University of Oxford. He studied at the Conservative Yeshiva, the Hartman Institute of Jewish Studies, and in the Advanced Learning Seminar at Pardes and received rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Daniel Landes. He is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Chicago in Jewish Studies specializing in Jewish mysticism. He has taught in a variety of settings in America and Israel on Judaism and Jewish Mysticism.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

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

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

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

About Neima Novetsky
Neima Novetsky is a faculty member for the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem. Her focus is Tanakh.

Ms. Novetsky holds a BA in Religion and a Certificate in Language and Culture from Princeton University, and an MA in Bible from the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University. Prior to making Aliyah from New York, Ms. Novetsky founded and directed the Advanced Tanakh Beit Midrash Program at Lincoln Square Synagogue. She has taught at Midreshet Lindenbaum, the Ma’ayan Institute for Women, and the Princeton University Hillel, and has lectured on Biblical topics in various synagogues in both Israel and the States.

This year July 4-8, 2010, the Pardes Executive Learning Seminar’s focus will be Rabbi Akiva–Romance, Repentance, Revolt, Mysticism, and Martyrdom. Don’t miss this opportunity to study in Jerusalem with Rabbis Meir Schweiger and Daniel Landes! More information: Jenna Corman, 212.447.4333 or Trudy Greener, +972.2.673.5210

Please support the podcast! Donate online at anytime via www.donate.pardesusa.org Thank you!

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

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

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.

This year July 4-8, 2010, the Pardes Executive Learning Seminar’s focus will be Rabbi Akiva–Romance, Repentance, Revolt, Mysticism, and Martyrdom. Don’t miss this opportunity to study in Jerusalem with Rabbis Meir Schweiger and Daniel Landes! More information: Jenna Corman, 212.447.4333 or Trudy Greener, +972.2.673.5210

Please support the podcast! Donate online at anytime via www.donate.pardesusa.org Thank you!

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Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
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.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
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Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Neima Novetsky
Neima Novetsky is a faculty member for the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem. Her focus is Tanakh.

Ms. Novetsky holds a BA in Religion and a Certificate in Language and Culture from Princeton University, and an MA in Bible from the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University. Prior to making Aliyah from New York, Ms. Novetsky founded and directed the Advanced Tanakh Beit Midrash Program at Lincoln Square Synagogue. She has taught at Midreshet Lindenbaum, the Ma’ayan Institute for Women, and the Princeton University Hillel, and has lectured on Biblical topics in various synagogues in both Israel and the States.

Please support the podcast! Donate online at anytime via www.donate.pardesusa.org Thank you!

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us:
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For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
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Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
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.

About Rabbi Jacobson-Maisels
Rabbi James Jacobson-Maisels is a faculty member at Pardes. His focus is Jewish Mysticism.

Rabbi James Jacobson-Maisels holds a BA in Philosophy and Judaic Studies from Brown University and an M.St. in Modern Jewish Studies from Balliol College, University of Oxford. He studied at the Conservative Yeshiva, the Hartman Institute of Jewish Studies, and in the Advanced Learning Seminar at Pardes and received rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Daniel Landes. He is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Chicago in Jewish Studies specializing in Jewish mysticism. He has taught in a variety of settings in America and Israel on Judaism and Jewish Mysticism.

Pardes Faculty Members Speak Across N. America

Dr. David Bernstein, Pardes Dean

New York, NY

NYU Hillel Shabbat
“Decision Making – The Revelation at Sinai as Case Study”
Friday, February 12
8:15 pm at NYU Hillel (2nd floor)
7 East 10th Street
New York, NY 10003

Uri L’Tzedek Beit Midrash
“World Reaction to the Shoah”
Wednesday, February 17
6:30 pm at Drisha
37 West 65 Street
New York, NY 10023-6610

Washington, DC

DC Beit Midrash
“The Mishkan: Original Plan or Default? A Controversy Among the Classical Commentators”
Monday, February 15
7:30 pm at DC-JCC
16th and Q Streets, NW
Washington, DC 20036

College Park, MD

Maryland Hillel Pizza and Parsha
“The Mishkan: Original Plan or Default? A Controversy Among the Classical Commentators”
Tuesday, February 16
6:00 pm at Hillel
7612 Mowatt Lane
College Park, MD 20740

Rabbi David Levin-Kruss
Pardes Faculty Member

San Francisco, CA

“Heart, Minds and Hands”
Tuesday, February 9
6:30 pm at The Women’s Building
3543 18th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110-1697

“Heart, Minds and Hands”
Wednesday, February 10
12:00 pm Lunch and Learn at Stanford Hillel
Taube Hillel House
565 Mayfield Avenue (at the corner of Campus Drive and Mayfield)
Stanford, CA 94305-8456

“Wicked-pedia! Is the democratization of knowledge a good thing?”
Wednesday, February 10
7:00 pm at Berkeley Hillel (following the MASA Israel Opportunities Fair)
2736 Bancroft Way
Berkeley, CA 94704-1719

San Diego, CA

Joint Program with Pardes alum and Bible Raps creator Matthew Bar
“Who is a Rapper? What is a Jew?”
Thursday, February 11
12:30 pm with UCSD Hillel
UCSD Campus — Green Table Room in the Price Center
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0076

Joint Program with Pardes alum and Bible Raps creator Matthew Bar
“Who is a Rapper? What is a Jew?”
Thursday, February 11
6:00 pm Dinner and Learn at San Diego State University Hillel
5717 Lindo Paseo
San Diego, CA 92115

Los Angeles, CA

Limmud LA
Friday, February 12 – Monday, February 15

Joint Program with Pardes alum and Bible Raps creator Matthew Bar
“Wicked-pedia and Wicked-Jew”
Monday, February 15
7:30 pm at Moishe House LA
3625 May Street
Los Angeles, CA 90066

Seattle, WA

“Moonlight or Ma’ariv”
Jconnect
Tuesday, February 16
7:00 pm at University of Washington Hillel
4745 17th Avenue NE
Seattle, WA 98105

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
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Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
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Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Neima Novetsky
Neima Novetsky is a faculty member for the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem. Her focus is Tanakh.

Ms. Novetsky holds a BA in Religion and a Certificate in Language and Culture from Princeton University, and an MA in Bible from the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University. Prior to making Aliyah from New York, Ms. Novetsky founded and directed the Advanced Tanakh Beit Midrash Program at Lincoln Square Synagogue. She has taught at Midreshet Lindenbaum, the Ma’ayan Institute for Women, and the Princeton University Hillel, and has lectured on Biblical topics in various synagogues in both Israel and the States.

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
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Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Levi Cooper
Rabbi Levi Cooper is a member of the Pardes faculty.

Originally from Australia, Rabbi Cooper holds an LLB and LLM from Bar Ilan University, and is a member of the Israel Bar Association. He studied at Chabad, Shaalvim Hesder Yeshiva, the Bar-Ilan University Kollel and Beit Morasha. Rabbi Cooper served in the IDF’s Golani Brigade and continues to serve as a commander (reserves) in an infantry unit. He is a member of the Tzohar rabbis organization, which strives to create positive relationships between rabbis and the broader Israeli public.

Rabbi Cooper is also an educational advisor to the Jewish community of Istanbul, Turkey and an educator with Heritage Seminars. Rabbi Cooper has authored articles in Judaic studies and prepared educational materials for use in high schools. He publishes a weekly column in the Jerusalem Post entitled World of the Sages and is a contributing editor for Jewish Educational Leadership, the journal of Bar-Ilan University’s Lookstein Center. Rabbi Cooper is the rabbi of Kehillat HaTzur VeHaTzohar in Tzur Hadassah, a mixed religious and secular neighborhood outside Jerusalem.

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Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
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.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
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Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Landes
Rabbi Daniel Landes is the Director and Rosh HaYeshiva of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies.

Rabbi Landes 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.” Rabbi Landes heads the Pardes team of outstanding scholars who are well-known for their use of unique educational methodology that combine independent thinking and deep understanding with sensitivity to contemporary relevance.

Rabbi Landes was a founding faculty member and Director of Educational Projects at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and a professor of Ethics and Values at Yeshiva University of Los Angeles. He taught Jewish Law at Loyola Law School, and 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. Rabbi Landes remains a long-term faculty member of the Wexner Foundation and serves on the educational advisory committee of Taglit-birthright Israel.

Rabbi 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, Bane-David Judaea, was known for Jewish inclusiveness, feminism, social action, and Halakhic observance. Rabbi Landes has written widely in the area of social ethics, theology and mysticism, and is the Jewish law commentator for the recent series, “My People’s Prayerbook,” a multi-denominational effort.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Neima Novetsky
Neima Novetsky is a faculty member for the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem. Her focus is Tanakh.

Ms. Novetsky holds a BA in Religion and a Certificate in Language and Culture from Princeton University, and an MA in Bible from the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University. Prior to making Aliyah from New York, Ms. Novetsky founded and directed the Advanced Tanakh Beit Midrash Program at Lincoln Square Synagogue. She has taught at Midreshet Lindenbaum, the Ma’ayan Institute for Women, and the Princeton University Hillel, and has lectured on Biblical topics in various synagogues in both Israel and the States.

This podcast is dedicated to the Jews in Green–Jewish men and women serving in the US Armed Forces. See www.jewsingreen.com

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
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Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Levi Cooper
Rabbi Levi Cooper is a member of the Pardes faculty.

Originally from Australia, Rabbi Cooper holds an LLB and LLM from Bar Ilan University, and is a member of the Israel Bar Association. He studied at Chabad, Shaalvim Hesder Yeshiva, the Bar-Ilan University Kollel and Beit Morasha. Rabbi Cooper served in the IDF’s Golani Brigade and continues to serve as a commander (reserves) in an infantry unit. He is a member of the Tzohar rabbis organization, which strives to create positive relationships between rabbis and the broader Israeli public.

Rabbi Cooper is also an educational advisor to the Jewish community of Istanbul, Turkey and an educator with Heritage Seminars. Rabbi Cooper has authored articles in Judaic studies and prepared educational materials for use in high schools. He publishes a weekly column in the Jerusalem Post entitled World of the Sages and is a contributing editor for Jewish Educational Leadership, the journal of Bar-Ilan University’s Lookstein Center. Rabbi Cooper is the rabbi of Kehillat HaTzur VeHaTzohar in Tzur Hadassah, a mixed religious and secular neighborhood outside Jerusalem.

You can subscribe to receive Rabbi Cooper’s Jerusalem Post column by email: signup

Please support the podcast! Donate online at anytime via www.donate.pardesusa.org Thank you!

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
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.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Landes
Rabbi Daniel Landes is the Director and Rosh HaYeshiva of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies.

Rabbi Landes 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.” Rabbi Landes heads the Pardes team of outstanding scholars who are well-known for their use of unique educational methodology that combine independent thinking and deep understanding with sensitivity to contemporary relevance.

Rabbi Landes was a founding faculty member and Director of Educational Projects at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and a professor of Ethics and Values at Yeshiva University of Los Angeles. He taught Jewish Law at Loyola Law School, and 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. Rabbi Landes remains a long-term faculty member of the Wexner Foundation and serves on the educational advisory committee of Taglit-birthright Israel.

Rabbi 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, Bane-David Judaea, was known for Jewish inclusiveness, feminism, social action, and Halakhic observance. Rabbi Landes has written widely in the area of social ethics, theology and mysticism, and is the Jewish law commentator for the recent series, “My People’s Prayerbook,” a multi-denominational effort.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Jacobson-Maisels
Rabbi James Jacobson-Maisels is a faculty member at Pardes. His focus is Jewish Mysticism.

Rabbi James Jacobson-Maisels holds a BA in Philosophy and Judaic Studies from Brown University and an M.St. in Modern Jewish Studies from Balliol College, University of Oxford. He studied at the Conservative Yeshiva, the Hartman Institute of Jewish Studies, and in the Advanced Learning Seminar at Pardes and received rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Daniel Landes. He is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Chicago in Jewish Studies specializing in Jewish mysticism. He has taught in a variety of settings in America and Israel on Judaism and Jewish Mysticism.

Please join us for the $18 Challenge by donating $18 or more to the podcast. Donate via www.donate.pardesusa.org Thank you!

And please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Neima Novetsky
Neima Novetsky is a faculty member for the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem. Her focus is Tanakh.

Ms. Novetsky holds a BA in Religion and a Certificate in Language and Culture from Princeton University, and an MA in Bible from the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University. Prior to making Aliyah from New York, Ms. Novetsky founded and directed the Advanced Tanakh Beit Midrash Program at Lincoln Square Synagogue. She has taught at Midreshet Lindenbaum, the Ma’ayan Institute for Women, and the Princeton University Hillel, and has lectured on Biblical topics in various synagogues in both Israel and the States.

Judy Klitsner will be launching her new book, entitled “Subversive Sequels In the Bible: How Biblical Stories Mine and Undermine Each Other,” on Saturday night, December 5th at 8 pm, at the Pardes Institute, 29 Pierre Koenig Street, Jerusalem. Admission is free, no rsvp is needed. For more information about this evening of learning, music and celebration, you may write to info@pardes.org.il.

For a list of Judy’s upcoming speaking engagements, see www.judyklitsner.com

Please join us for the $18 Challenge by donating $18 or more to the podcast. Donate via www.donate.pardesusa.org Thank you!

Comments or thoughts about the podcast? Write us:
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Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Judy Klitsner
Judy Klitsner is a senior faculty member at Pardes, where she has taught courses in Bible and Biblical exegesis for nearly two decades. She is a disciple of the great Torah teacher Nechama Leibowitz. In her teaching and in her writing, Klitsner weaves together traditional exegesis, modern scholarship, and her own original interpretations that are informed by close readings of the text.

Please join us for the $18 Challenge by donating $18 or more to the podcast. Donate via www.donate.pardesusa.org Thank you!

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us:
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For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
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Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
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.

In addition to the attached schedule, please see Judy Klitsner’s web site for her complete speaking schedule and book tour locations around the world: www.judyklitsner.com

Schedule of events

Judy Klitsner’s new book, “Subversive Sequels in the Bible:
How Biblical Stories Mine and Undermine Each Other” is now available from Amazon and other book sellers.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Landes
Rabbi Daniel Landes is the Director and Rosh HaYeshiva of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies.

Rabbi Landes 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.” Rabbi Landes heads the Pardes team of outstanding scholars who are well-known for their use of unique educational methodology that combine independent thinking and deep understanding with sensitivity to contemporary relevance.

Rabbi Landes was a founding faculty member and Director of Educational Projects at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and a professor of Ethics and Values at Yeshiva University of Los Angeles. He taught Jewish Law at Loyola Law School, and 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. Rabbi Landes remains a long-term faculty member of the Wexner Foundation and serves on the educational advisory committee of Taglit-birthright Israel.

Rabbi 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, Bane-David Judaea, was known for Jewish inclusiveness, feminism, social action, and Halakhic observance. Rabbi Landes has written widely in the area of social ethics, theology and mysticism, and is the Jewish law commentator for the recent series, “My People’s Prayerbook,” a multi-denominational effort.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Jacobson-Maisels
Rabbi James Jacobson-Maisels is a faculty member at Pardes. His focus is Jewish Mysticism.

Rabbi James Jacobson-Maisels holds a BA in Philosophy and Judaic Studies from Brown University and an M.St. in Modern Jewish Studies from Balliol College, University of Oxford. He studied at the Conservative Yeshiva, the Hartman Institute of Jewish Studies, and in the Advanced Learning Seminar at Pardes and received rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Daniel Landes. He is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Chicago in Jewish Studies specializing in Jewish mysticism. He has taught in a variety of settings in America and Israel on Judaism and Jewish Mysticism.

>>> Please consider a donation to support the podcast. Your gift, of any amount, will make a real difference.
Donate via www.donate.pardesusa.org Thank you!

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Levi Cooper
Rabbi Levi Cooper is a member of the Pardes faculty.

Originally from Australia, Rabbi Cooper holds an LLB and LLM from Bar Ilan University, and is a member of the Israel Bar Association. He studied at Chabad, Shaalvim Hesder Yeshiva, the Bar-Ilan University Kollel and Beit Morasha. Rabbi Cooper served in the IDF’s Golani Brigade and continues to serve as a commander (reserves) in an infantry unit. He is a member of the Tzohar rabbis organization, which strives to create positive relationships between rabbis and the broader Israeli public.

Rabbi Cooper is also an educational advisor to the Jewish community of Istanbul, Turkey and an educator with Heritage Seminars. Rabbi Cooper has authored articles in Judaic studies and prepared educational materials for use in high schools. He publishes a weekly column in the Jerusalem Post entitled World of the Sages and is a contributing editor for Jewish Educational Leadership, the journal of Bar-Ilan University’s Lookstein Center. Rabbi Cooper is the rabbi of Kehillat HaTzur VeHaTzohar in Tzur Hadassah, a mixed religious and secular neighborhood outside Jerusalem.

You can subscribe to receive Rabbi Cooper’s Jerusalem Post column by email: signup

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
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.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Neima Novetsky
Neima Novetsky is a faculty member for the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem. Her focus is Tanakh.

Ms. Novetsky holds a BA in Religion and a Certificate in Language and Culture from Princeton University, and an MA in Bible from the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University. Prior to making Aliyah from New York, Ms. Novetsky founded and directed the Advanced Tanakh Beit Midrash Program at Lincoln Square Synagogue. She has taught at Midreshet Lindenbaum, the Ma’ayan Institute for Women, and the Princeton University Hillel, and has lectured on Biblical topics in various synagogues in both Israel and the States.

Don’t miss the opportunity to study Torah in Jerusalem with the master teachers of Pardes.
Take advantage of the opportunity this coming summer. Pardes offers intensive three week courses in June, July and August. Pardes also offers a less intensive one week executive seminar in July. For every age range from the 20’s up through the 70’s and 80’s and for every level of background Jewish knowledge, Pardes has a course for you.

Find out more by contacting Pardes: New York office: 212-447-4333, Jerusalem office: +972-2-673-5210

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Landes
Rabbi Daniel Landes is the Director and Rosh HaYeshiva of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies.

Rabbi Landes 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.” Rabbi Landes heads the Pardes team of outstanding scholars who are well-known for their use of unique educational methodology that combine independent thinking and deep understanding with sensitivity to contemporary relevance.

Rabbi Landes was a founding faculty member and Director of Educational Projects at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and a professor of Ethics and Values at Yeshiva University of Los Angeles. He taught Jewish Law at Loyola Law School, and 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. Rabbi Landes remains a long-term faculty member of the Wexner Foundation and serves on the educational advisory committee of Taglit-birthright Israel.

Rabbi 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, Bane-David Judaea, was known for Jewish inclusiveness, feminism, social action, and Halakhic observance. Rabbi Landes has written widely in the area of social ethics, theology and mysticism, and is the Jewish law commentator for the recent series, “My People’s Prayerbook,” a multi-denominational effort.

This podcast is dedicated to the students at Pardes as they start the new year. We wish them great energy and success in their studies!

>>> Please consider a donation to support the podcast. Your gift, of any amount, will make a real difference.
Donate via www.donate.pardesusa.org Thank you!

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
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Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Levi Cooper
Rabbi Levi Cooper is a member of the Pardes faculty, where he is the Director of Advanced Programs.

Originally from Australia, he holds an LLB and LLM from Bar Ilan University, and is a member of the Israel Bar Association. He studied at Chabad, Shaalvim Hesder Yeshiva, the Bar-Ilan University Kollel and Beit Morasha. Rabbi Cooper served in the IDF’s Golani Brigade and continues to do reserve duty as a commander in an infantry unit. He is a member of the Tzohar rabbis organization, which strives to create positive relationships between rabbis and the broader Israeli public.

Rabbi Cooper is also an educational advisor to the Jewish community of Istanbul, Turkey and an educator with Heritage Seminars. Rabbi Cooper has authored articles in Judaic studies and prepared educational materials for use in high schools. He publishes a weekly column in the Jerusalem Post entitled World of the Sages and is a contributing editor for Jewish Educational Leadership, the journal of Bar-Ilan University’s Lookstein Center. Rabbi Cooper is the rabbi of Kehillat HaTzur VeHaTzohar in Tzur Hadassah, a mixed religious and secular neighborhood outside Jerusalem.

You can subscribe to receive Rabbi Cooper’s Jerusalem Post column by email:
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Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
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For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
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Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Neima Novetsky
Neima Novetsky is a faculty member for the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem. Her focus is Tanakh.

Ms. Novetsky holds a BA in Religion and a Certificate in Language and Culture from Princeton University, and an MA in Bible from the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University. Prior to making Aliyah from New York, Ms. Novetsky founded and directed the Advanced Tanakh Beit Midrash Program at Lincoln Square Synagogue. She has taught at Midreshet Lindenbaum, the Ma’ayan Institute for Women, and the Princeton University Hillel, and has lectured on Biblical topics in various synagogues in both Israel and the States.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
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.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Landes
Rabbi Daniel Landes is the Director and Rosh HaYeshiva of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies.

Rabbi Landes 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.” Rabbi Landes heads the Pardes team of outstanding scholars who are well-known for their use of unique educational methodology that combine independent thinking and deep understanding with sensitivity to contemporary relevance.

Rabbi Landes was a founding faculty member and Director of Educational Projects at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and a professor of Ethics and Values at Yeshiva University of Los Angeles. He taught Jewish Law at Loyola Law School, and 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. Rabbi Landes remains a long-term faculty member of the Wexner Foundation and serves on the educational advisory committee of Taglit-birthright Israel.

Rabbi 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, Bane-David Judaea, was known for Jewish inclusiveness, feminism, social action, and Halakhic observance. Rabbi Landes has written widely in the area of social ethics, theology and mysticism, and is the Jewish law commentator for the recent series, “My People’s Prayerbook,” a multi-denominational effort.

There is a handout for this podcast, please see the prior episode.

>>> Please consider a donation to support the podcast. Your gift, of any amount, will make a real difference.
Donate via www.donate.pardesusa.org Thank you!

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Bruce Rachlin
Rabbi Rachlin retired in 2008, after close to forty-five years in Jewish education in the States. He and his wife Joyce made aliyah in August of 2008.

Rabbi Rachlin volunteers his time learning with Pardes students, while simultaneously writing a series of articles on the life of the Patriarch Abraham, the research for which he conducts in the Pardes Beit Midrash.

>>> Please consider a donation to support the podcast. Your gift, of any amount, will make a real difference.
Donate via www.donate.pardesusa.org Thank you!

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Alex Israel
Rabbi Alex Israel is a faculty member and the Director of Continuing Education for the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem.

Rabbi Israel has a BSc from the London School of Economics a PGCE from London’s Institute of Education, and is working on a MA in Talmud at Bar Ilan University. He studied and taught at Yeshivat Har Etzion Advanced Talmudic College and received rabbinic ordination from the Israeli Rabbinate. Rabbi Israel has taught at Midreshet Harova and Midreshet Lindenbaum. He currently teaches at Pardes, Yeshivat Eretz Hatzvi, and Michlelet Emunah. He is a Rabbi of Tzohar, an organization promoting dialogue and improved relations between religious and secular Israelis. Rabbi Israel blogs and sends weekly Parsha emails to many hundreds of readers around the globe

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
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 30 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.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Landes
Rabbi Daniel Landes is the Director and Rosh HaYeshiva of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies.

Rabbi Landes 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.” Rabbi Landes heads the Pardes team of outstanding scholars who are well-known for their use of unique educational methodology that combine independent thinking and deep understanding with sensitivity to contemporary relevance.

Rabbi Landes was a founding faculty member and Director of Educational Projects at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and a professor of Ethics and Values at Yeshiva University of Los Angeles. He taught Jewish Law at Loyola Law School, and 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. Rabbi Landes remains a long-term faculty member of the Wexner Foundation and serves on the educational advisory committee of Taglit-birthright Israel.

Rabbi 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, Bane-David Judaea, was known for Jewish inclusiveness, feminism, social action, and Halakhic observance. Rabbi Landes has written widely in the area of social ethics, theology and mysticism, and is the Jewish law commentator for the recent series, “My People’s Prayerbook,” a multi-denominational effort.

This is a reprise podcast from last year; unfortunately we were not able to produce a new podcast for this week.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
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 30 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.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Neima Novetsky
Neima Novetsky is a faculty member for the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem. Her focus is Tanakh.

Ms. Novetsky holds a BA in Religion and a Certificate in Language and Culture from Princeton University, and an MA in Bible from the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University. Prior to making Aliyah from New York, Ms. Novetsky founded and directed the Advanced Tanakh Beit Midrash Program at Lincoln Square Synagogue. She has taught at Midreshet Lindenbaum, the Ma’ayan Institute for Women, and the Princeton University Hillel, and has lectured on Biblical topics in various synagogues in both Israel and the States.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Landes
Rabbi Daniel Landes is the Director and Rosh HaYeshiva of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies.

Rabbi Landes 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.” Rabbi Landes heads the Pardes team of outstanding scholars who are well-known for their use of unique educational methodology that combine independent thinking and deep understanding with sensitivity to contemporary relevance.

Rabbi Landes was a founding faculty member and Director of Educational Projects at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and a professor of Ethics and Values at Yeshiva University of Los Angeles. He taught Jewish Law at Loyola Law School, and 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. Rabbi Landes remains a long-term faculty member of the Wexner Foundation and serves on the educational advisory committee of Taglit-birthright Israel.

Rabbi 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, Bane-David Judaea, was known for Jewish inclusiveness, feminism, social action, and Halakhic observance. Rabbi Landes has written widely in the area of social ethics, theology and mysticism, and is the Jewish law commentator for the recent series, “My People’s Prayerbook,” a multi-denominational effort.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
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 30 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.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Landes
Rabbi Daniel Landes is the Director and Rosh HaYeshiva of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies.

Rabbi Landes 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.” Rabbi Landes heads the Pardes team of outstanding scholars who are well-known for their use of unique educational methodology that combine independent thinking and deep understanding with sensitivity to contemporary relevance.

Rabbi Landes was a founding faculty member and Director of Educational Projects at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and a professor of Ethics and Values at Yeshiva University of Los Angeles. He taught Jewish Law at Loyola Law School, and 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. Rabbi Landes remains a long-term faculty member of the Wexner Foundation and serves on the educational advisory committee of Taglit-birthright Israel.

Rabbi 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, Bane-David Judaea, was known for Jewish inclusiveness, feminism, social action, and Halakhic observance. Rabbi Landes has written widely in the area of social ethics, theology and mysticism, and is the Jewish law commentator for the recent series, “My People’s Prayerbook,” a multi-denominational effort.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
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.

>> Please consider a donation to support the podcast. Your gift, of any amount, will make a real difference. Donate via www.donate.pardesusa.org Thank you!

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Alex Israel
Rabbi Alex Israel is a faculty member and the Director of Continuing Education for the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem.

Rabbi Israel has a BSc from the London School of Economics a PGCE from London’s Institute of Education, and is working on a MA in Talmud at Bar Ilan University. He studied and taught at Yeshivat Har Etzion Advanced Talmudic College and received rabbinic ordination from the Israeli Rabbinate. Rabbi Israel has taught at Midreshet Harova and Midreshet Lindenbaum. He currently teaches at Pardes, Yeshivat Eretz Hatzvi, and Michlelet Emunah. He is a Rabbi of Tzohar, an organization promoting dialogue and improved relations between religious and secular Israelis. Rabbi Israel blogs and sends weekly Parsha emails to many hundreds of readers around the globe

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Alex Israel
Rabbi Alex Israel is a faculty member and the Director of Continuing Education for the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem.

Rabbi Israel has a BSc from the London School of Economics a PGCE from London’s Institute of Education, and is working on a MA in Talmud at Bar Ilan University. He studied and taught at Yeshivat Har Etzion Advanced Talmudic College and received rabbinic ordination from the Israeli Rabbinate. Rabbi Israel has taught at Midreshet Harova and Midreshet Lindenbaum. He currently teaches at Pardes, Yeshivat Eretz Hatzvi, and Michlelet Emunah. He is a Rabbi of Tzohar, an organization promoting dialogue and improved relations between religious and secular Israelis. Rabbi Israel blogs and sends weekly Parsha emails to many hundreds of readers around the globe

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Landes
Rabbi Daniel Landes is the Director and Rosh HaYeshiva of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies.

Rabbi Landes 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.” Rabbi Landes heads the Pardes team of outstanding scholars who are well-known for their use of unique educational methodology that combine independent thinking and deep understanding with sensitivity to contemporary relevance.

Rabbi Landes was a founding faculty member and Director of Educational Projects at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and a professor of Ethics and Values at Yeshiva University of Los Angeles. He taught Jewish Law at Loyola Law School, and 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. Rabbi Landes remains a long-term faculty member of the Wexner Foundation and serves on the educational advisory committee of Taglit-birthright Israel.

Rabbi 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, Bane-David Judaea, was known for Jewish inclusiveness, feminism, social action, and Halakhic observance. Rabbi Landes has written widely in the area of social ethics, theology and mysticism, and is the Jewish law commentator for the recent series, “My People’s Prayerbook,” a multi-denominational effort.

For the next several weeks, parshiot are read in Israel a week ahead of their readings elsewhere. If you’re looking for the parsha commentary for this week and you don’t live in Israel, please see the prior podcast.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
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 30 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.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Alex Israel
Rabbi Alex Israel is a faculty member and the Director of Continuing Education for the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem.

Rabbi Israel has a BSc from the London School of Economics a PGCE from London’s Institute of Education, and is working on a MA in Talmud at Bar Ilan University. He studied and taught at Yeshivat Har Etzion Advanced Talmudic College and received rabbinic ordination from the Israeli Rabbinate. Rabbi Israel has taught at Midreshet Harova and Midreshet Lindenbaum. He currently teaches at Pardes, Yeshivat Eretz Hatzvi, and Michlelet Emunah. He is a Rabbi of Tzohar, an organization promoting dialogue and improved relations between religious and secular Israelis. Rabbi Israel blogs and sends weekly Parsha emails to many hundreds of readers around the globe

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
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 30 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.

Attend Tikkun Leil Shavout at Pardes in Jerusalem
Avivah Zornberg, Rabbi David Levin-Kruss, Rabbi Danny Landes and Judy Klitsner will all be teaching. Program starts at 10.45pm. All are welcome.

Free Tuition at Pardes!
Pardes is offering free tuition for the 2009-2010 academic year! See the details at www.pardes.org
Also see the Pardes web site for details about our Summer programs. You deserve to study Torah in Jerusalem at Pardes! There programs for every person–see the details on the web site and contact us to learn more.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
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.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Jacobson-Maisels
Rabbi James Jacobson-Maisels is a faculty member at Pardes. His focus is Jewish Mysticism.

Rabbi James Jacobson-Maisels holds a BA in Philosophy and Judaic Studies from Brown University and an M.St. in Modern Jewish Studies from Balliol College, University of Oxford. He studied at the Conservative Yeshiva, the Hartman Institute of Jewish Studies, and in the Advanced Learning Seminar at Pardes and received rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Daniel Landes. He is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Chicago in Jewish Studies specializing in Jewish mysticism. He has taught in a variety of settings in America and Israel on Judaism and Jewish Mysticism.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Alex Israel
Rabbi Alex Israel is a faculty member and the Director of Continuing Education for the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem.

Rabbi Israel has a BSc from the London School of Economics a PGCE from London’s Institute of Education, and is working on a MA in Talmud at Bar Ilan University. He studied and taught at Yeshivat Har Etzion Advanced Talmudic College and received rabbinic ordination from the Israeli Rabbinate. Rabbi Israel has taught at Midreshet Harova and Midreshet Lindenbaum. He currently teaches at Pardes, Yeshivat Eretz Hatzvi, and Michlelet Emunah. He is a Rabbi of Tzohar, an organization promoting dialogue and improved relations between religious and secular Israelis. Rabbi Israel blogs and sends weekly Parsha emails to many hundreds of readers around the globe

19:14 is the p’suk “You shall not insult the deaf, or place a stumbling block before the blind. You shall fear your G-d: I am the L-rd.”

There is a handout for this podcast, please see the prior episode.

Free Tuition at Pardes!
Pardes is offering free tuition for the 2009-2010 academic year! See the details at www.pardes.org
Also see the Pardes web site for details about our Summer programs. You deserve to study Torah in Jerusalem at Pardes! There programs for every person–see the details on the web site and contact us to learn more.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
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.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
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 30 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.

Book signing at Pardes
Dr. Daniel Gordis is one of Israel’s most insightful and touching writers on contemporary events. He will be talking about his new book, “Saving Israel: How the Jewish State Can Win a War That May Never End”
Thursday April 23rd at 8:30 pm
Pardes, Pierre Koenig 29 (3rd floor), Talpiot, Jerusalem
30 NIS, including light refreshments.
Books will be on sale.
For further details and to reserve your ticket, email events (at) pardes.org.il or call 02 673 5210.

Upcoming Shiurim with Pardes Faculty Members
Dr. Aviva Zornberg will be speaking across the US in April and May. Her schedule is now available:

http://www.pardes.org.il/programs/north_america/Zornberg-itinerary-2.doc

Pardes Faculty Member Michael Hattin will also be in the US:
Tuesday, April 21st from 6:00 – 7:15 pm
7612 Mowatt Lane
College Park, MD 20740
RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/Hattin-Maryland

Lunch and Learn at the University of Chicago Hillel
Friday, April 24th from 12:30 – 1:30 pm
Newberger Hillel Center
715 S. Woodlawn
Chicago, IL 60637
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Malava Malka
Come enjoy a light dairy meal and learning with Michael Hattin on:
Saturday, April 25 at 9:00 pm
Anshe Sholom
540 West Melrose
Chicago, Illinois
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Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Landes
Rabbi Daniel Landes is the Director and Rosh HaYeshiva of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies.

Rabbi Landes 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.” Rabbi Landes heads the Pardes team of outstanding scholars who are well-known for their use of unique educational methodology that combine independent thinking and deep understanding with sensitivity to contemporary relevance.

Rabbi Landes was a founding faculty member and Director of Educational Projects at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and a professor of Ethics and Values at Yeshiva University of Los Angeles. He taught Jewish Law at Loyola Law School, and 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. Rabbi Landes remains a long-term faculty member of the Wexner Foundation and serves on the educational advisory committee of Taglit-birthright Israel.

Rabbi 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, Bane-David Judaea, was known for Jewish inclusiveness, feminism, social action, and Halakhic observance. Rabbi Landes has written widely in the area of social ethics, theology and mysticism, and is the Jewish law commentator for the recent series, “My People’s Prayerbook,” a multi-denominational effort.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Yaffa Epstein
Yaffa Epstein is a faculty member and the Director of Recruitment at the Pardes Institute for Jewish Studies.

Yaffa holds a Law Degree from Bar Ilan University and is a member of the Israeli Bar. She is a former student of the Kollel at Pardes, and was a member of Matan’s Advanced Talmud Institute. Yaffa teaches Talmud and Prayer at Pardes and has taught for SIACH, the Lookstein Center, and Young Judea.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Jacobson-Maisels
Rabbi James Jacobson-Maisels is a faculty member at Pardes. His focus is Jewish Mysticism.

Rabbi James Jacobson-Maisels holds a BA in Philosophy and Judaic Studies from Brown University and an M.St. in Modern Jewish Studies from Balliol College, University of Oxford. He studied at the Conservative Yeshiva, the Hartman Institute of Jewish Studies, and in the Advanced Learning Seminar at Pardes and received rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Daniel Landes. He is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Chicago in Jewish Studies specializing in Jewish mysticism. He has taught in a variety of settings in America and Israel on Judaism and Jewish Mysticism.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Alex Israel
Rabbi Alex Israel is a faculty member and the Director of Continuing Education for the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem.

Rabbi Israel has a BSc from the London School of Economics a PGCE from London’s Institute of Education, and is working on a MA in Talmud at Bar Ilan University. He studied and taught at Yeshivat Har Etzion Advanced Talmudic College and received rabbinic ordination from the Israeli Rabbinate. Rabbi Israel has taught at Midreshet Harova and Midreshet Lindenbaum. He currently teaches at Pardes, Yeshivat Eretz Hatzvi, and Michlelet Emunah. He is a Rabbi of Tzohar, an organization promoting dialogue and improved relations between religious and secular Israelis. Rabbi Israel blogs and sends weekly Parsha emails to many hundreds of readers around the globe

There is a handout for this podcast, please see the next episode.

Free Tuition at Pardes!
Pardes is offering free tuition for the 2009-2010 academic year! See the details at www.pardes.org
Also see the Pardes web site for details about our Summer programs. You deserve to study Torah in Jerusalem at Pardes! There programs for every person–see the details on the web site and contact us to learn more.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
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For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
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Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
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.

Don’t miss out on free Pardes tuition for the 2009-2010 year.

Or come study at Pardes this summer. We have many programs, all taught by the renowned Pardes faculty.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
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 30 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.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Neima Novetsky
Neima Novetsky is a faculty member for the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem. Her focus is Tanakh.

Ms. Novetsky holds a BA in Religion and a Certificate in Language and Culture from Princeton University, and an MA in Bible from the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University. Prior to making Aliyah from New York, Ms. Novetsky founded and directed the Advanced Tanakh Beit Midrash Program at Lincoln Square Synagogue. She has taught at Midreshet Lindenbaum, the Ma’ayan Institute for Women, and the Princeton University Hillel, and has lectured on Biblical topics in various synagogues in both Israel and the States.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Alex Israel
Rabbi Alex Israel is a faculty member and the Director of Continuing Education for the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem.

Rabbi Israel has a BSc from the London School of Economics a PGCE from London’s Institute of Education, and is working on a MA in Talmud at Bar Ilan University. He studied and taught at Yeshivat Har Etzion Advanced Talmudic College and received rabbinic ordination from the Israeli Rabbinate. Rabbi Israel has taught at Midreshet Harova and Midreshet Lindenbaum. He currently teaches at Pardes, Yeshivat Eretz Hatzvi, and Michlelet Emunah. He is a Rabbi of Tzohar, an organization promoting dialogue and improved relations between religious and secular Israelis. Rabbi Israel blogs and sends weekly Parsha emails to many hundreds of readers around the globe

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Jacobson-Maisels
Rabbi James Jacobson-Maisels is a faculty member at Pardes. His focus is Jewish Mysticism.

Rabbi James Jacobson-Maisels holds a BA in Philosophy and Judaic Studies from Brown University and an M.St. in Modern Jewish Studies from Balliol College, University of Oxford. He studied at the Conservative Yeshiva, the Hartman Institute of Jewish Studies, and in the Advanced Learning Seminar at Pardes and received rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Daniel Landes. He is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Chicago in Jewish Studies specializing in Jewish mysticism. He has taught in a variety of settings in America and Israel on Judaism and Jewish Mysticism.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Alex Israel
Rabbi Alex Israel is a faculty member and the Director of Continuing Education for the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem.

Rabbi Israel has a BSc from the London School of Economics a PGCE from London’s Institute of Education, and is working on a MA in Talmud at Bar Ilan University. He studied and taught at Yeshivat Har Etzion Advanced Talmudic College and received rabbinic ordination from the Israeli Rabbinate. Rabbi Israel has taught at Midreshet Harova and Midreshet Lindenbaum. He currently teaches at Pardes, Yeshivat Eretz Hatzvi, and Michlelet Emunah. He is a Rabbi of Tzohar, an organization promoting dialogue and improved relations between religious and secular Israelis. Rabbi Israel blogs and sends weekly Parsha emails to many hundreds of readers around the globe

There is a handout for this podcast, please see the next episode.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
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.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
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 30 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.

In this episode of Pardes from Jerusalem, Rabbi Daniel Landes discusses Parshat Va’era.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Landes
Rabbi Daniel Landes is the Director and Rosh HaYeshiva of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies.

Rabbi Landes 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.” Rabbi Landes heads the Pardes team of outstanding scholars who are well-known for their use of unique educational methodology that combine independent thinking and deep understanding with sensitivity to contemporary relevance.

Rabbi Landes was a founding faculty member and Director of Educational Projects at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and a professor of Ethics and Values at Yeshiva University of Los Angeles. He taught Jewish Law at Loyola Law School, and 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. Rabbi Landes remains a long-term faculty member of the Wexner Foundation and serves on the educational advisory committee of Taglit-birthright Israel.

Rabbi 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, Bane-David Judaea, was known for Jewish inclusiveness, feminism, social action, and Halakhic observance. Rabbi Landes has written widely in the area of social ethics, theology and mysticism, and is the Jewish law commentator for the recent series, “My People’s Prayerbook,” a multi-denominational effort.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
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 30 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.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org.il

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
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.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
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 30 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.

Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:
podcast -at- pardesusa.org

For more information about Pardes, visit our website,
www.pardes.org

Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Dr. David Bernstein – Executive Producer

About Rabbi Jacobson-Maisels
Rabbi James Jacobson-Maisels is a faculty member at Pardes. His focus is Jewish Mysticism.

Rabbi James Jacobson-Maisels holds a BA in Philosophy and Judaic Studies from Brown University and an M.St. in Modern Jewish Studies from Balliol College, University of Oxford. He studied at the Conservative Yeshiva, the Hartman Institute of Jewish Studies, and in the Advanced Learning Seminar at Pardes and received rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Daniel Landes. He is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Chicago in Jewish Studies specializing in Jewish mysticism. He has taught in a variety of settings in America and Israel on Judaism and Jewish Mysticism.