Pardes from Jerusalem

This week, Rabbi Levi Cooper discusses Talmudic advice for a successful life from tractates Sukkot and B’rachot.

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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.

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In this episode Neima Novetsky discusses Shabbat Shuva and the concepts of teshuvah.

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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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Happy New Year! This week Rabbi Meir Schweiger discusses the Rosh HaShana liturgy.

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

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In this episode Rabbi Daniel Landes discusses Parshat Nitzavim.

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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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This week Rabbi Bruce Rachlin discusses Parshat Ki Tavo.

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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.

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