In this podcast, Rabbi Daniel Landes discusses a famous question from Parashat BeHar: What is this connection between Shmita and Mount Sinai?
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.
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