Reflections on the meaning and purpose of Jewish law in the modern world.
00 no dzkalman@gmail.com (David Zvi Kalman)David Zvi KalmanThis podcast is associated with Hadar Campus Scholars, which is itself a program of Mechon Hadar, an egalitarian, non-denominational yeshiva in New York City.
00 no dzkalman@gmail.com (David Zvi Kalman)David Zvi KalmanThis podcast is associated with Hadar Campus Scholars, which is itself a program of Mechon Hadar, an egalitarian, non-denominational yeshiva in New York City.
What happens when it is no longer obvious how a technology works? To what degree are rabbis responsible to fully understand the technological systems with which they are grappling? The source sheet for this class can be found here: http://goo.gl/UK0ZXN
This is a short invitation to this series of classes, taught by David Zvi Kalman at Penn Hillel. It explains the rationale behind the class and the hopes that have gone into its creation.
This class was co-taught by David Zvi Kalman and Rabbi Jonathan Shulman on April 24, 2014.
00 no dzkalman@gmail.com (David Zvi Kalman)David Zvi KalmanThis podcast is associated with Hadar Campus Scholars, which is itself a program of Mechon Hadar, an egalitarian, non-denominat
This class lays out several ways in which it is possible to have a relationship with God based in feelings of anger and investigates why one would wish to do such a thing in the first place. Delivered on April 9, 2014.
00 no dzkalman@gmail.com (David Zvi Kalman)David Zvi KalmanThis podcast is associated with Hadar Campus Scholars, which is itself a program of Mechon Hadar, an egalitarian, non-denominational yeshiva in New York City.
A survey of two major ways in which Jewish sources have related to God as being a person. This class was originally delivered on Mar. 3, 2014.
00 no dzkalman@gmail.com (David Zvi Kalman)David Zvi KalmanThis podcast is associated with Hadar Campus Scholars, which is itself a program of Mechon Hadar, an egalitarian, non-denominational yeshiva in New York City.
This class was originally delivered on Feb. 24, 2014. The topic was notions of God in Judaism where God is understood as having some kind of special relationship with the Jewish people.
00 no dzkalman@gmail.com (David Zvi Kalman)David Zvi KalmanThis podcast is associated with Hadar Campus Scholars, which is itself a program of Mechon Hadar, an egalitarian, non-denominational yeshiva in New York City.
This is a short statement explaning the structure of the class.
00 no dzkalman@gmail.com (David Zvi Kalman)David Zvi KalmanThis podcast is associated with Hadar Campus Scholars, which is itself a program of Mechon Hadar, an egalitarian, non-deno
This class is part of the second version of the series. It uses rabbinic responses to new technologies (e.g. electricity,lab-grown meat, Jews in space) as a peculiar subset of Halakhah which helps illuminate how rabbis negotiate between halakhic sources and their realities. It was delivered by David Zvi Kalman at Penn on Dec. 3, 2013.
00 no dzkalman@gmail.com (David Zvi Kalman)David Zvi KalmanThis podcast is associated with Hadar Campus Scholars, which is itself a program of Mechon Hadar, an egalitarian, non-denominational yeshiva in
This class is an attempt to provide new ways of thinking about God that do not clash with the way of thinking about God that we have so far put forward in this series. It was delivered by David Zvi Kalman at Penn on April 24, 2013.
00 no dzkalman@gmail.com (David Zvi Kalman)David Zvi KalmanThis podcast is associated with Hadar Campus Scholars, which is itself a program of Mechon Hadar, an egalitarian, non-denominational yeshiva in New York City.
This class is an attempt to reconcile issues of social justice with traditional modes of halakhic interpretations. The class was given on April 10, 2013, at Penn by David Zvi Kalman.
00 no dzkalman@gmail.com (David Zvi Kalman)David Zvi KalmanThis podcast is associated with Hadar Campus Scholars, which is itself a program of Mechon Hadar, an egalitari
This lecture is an attempt to think about Jewish law as occupying a number of distinct genres, and to think about the halakhot of sexuality as representing a kind of halakhic writing which is frequently overlooked. The class is part of the ON HALAKHAH series. It was delivered at Penn on March 20, 2013 by David Zvi Kalman.
Weekly class on commentaries on the weekly Torah portion, with a focus on traditional medieval commentators (ex. Rashi, Ramban), along with midrashic texts and medieval commentators. Recording of class on March 17, 2013, taught by Yael Kalman.
00 no dzkalman@gmail.com (David Zvi Kalman)David Zvi KalmanThis podcast is associated with Hadar Campus Scholars, which is itself a program of Mechon Hadar, an egalitarian, non-denom
This class attempts to cover a wide variety of Orthodox and Conservative approaches to Halakhah and Homosexuality, include those of Rabbis Steven Greenberg, Joel Roth and Gordon Tucker. It concludes with a suggestion as to a new approach. The class was delivered as part of the ON HALAKHAH series at Penn on March 13, 2013, by David Zvi Kalman
00 no dzkalman@gmail.com (David Zvi Kalman)David Zvi KalmanThis podcast is associated with Hadar Campus Scholars, which is itself a program of Mechon Hadar, an egalitarian, non-denominational yeshiva in New York
00 no dzkalman@gmail.com (David Zvi Kalman)David Zvi KalmanThis podcast is associated with Hadar Campus Scholars, which is itself a program of Mechon Hadar, an egalitarian, non-deno
This is part of the *On Halakhah* series. It was delivered on February 27, 2013 at Penn by David Zvi Kalman. It addresses some of the halakhic material dealing with barriers (or lack of barriers) to women leading tefillah.
00 no dzkalman@gmail.com (David Zvi Kalman)David Zvi KalmanThis podcast is associated with Hadar Campus Scholars, which is itself a program of Mechon Hadar, an egalitarian, non-denominational yeshiva in New York
Finishing up the rules of mashiv ha'ruach, plus the third blessing of the amidah.
00 no dzkalman@gmail.com (David Zvi Kalman)David Zvi KalmanThis podcast is associated with Hadar Campus Scholars, which is itself a program of Mechon Hadar, an egalitarian, non-denominational yeshiva in New York
00 no dzkalman@gmail.com (David Zvi Kalman)David Zvi KalmanThis podcast is associated with Hadar Campus Scholars, which is itself a program of Mechon Hadar, an egalitarian, non-denominational yeshiva in New York
00 no dzkalman@gmail.com (David Zvi Kalman)David Zvi KalmanThis podcast is associated with Hadar Campus Scholars, which is itself a program of Mechon Hadar, an egalitarian, non-denominational yeshiva in New York
00 no dzkalman@gmail.com (David Zvi Kalman)David Zvi KalmanThis podcast is associated with Hadar Campus Scholars, which is itself a program of Mechon Hadar, an egalitarian, non-denominational yes
This is the fifth class in the series ON HALAKHAH. It was delivered by David Zvi Kalman at Penn on February 20, 2013.
Verses before the Amidah, and the first blessing and the concentration required during it.
00 no dzkalman@gmail.com (David Zvi Kalman)David Zvi KalmanThis podcast is associated with Hadar Campus Scholars, which is itself a program of Mechon Hadar, an egalitarian, non-denominational yeshiva in New York
00 no dzkalman@gmail.com (David Zvi Kalman)David Zvi KalmanThis podcast is associated with Hadar Campus Scholars, which is itself a program of Mechon Hadar, an egalitarian, non-denominational yeshiva in Ne
More laws of bowing during prayer, including straightening at G-d's name and not bowing at other times during prayer.
03:12 no dzkalman@gmail.com (David Zvi Kalman)David Zvi KalmanThis podcast is associated with Hadar Campus Scholars, which is itself a program of Mechon Hadar, an egalitarian, non-denominational yeshiva in New York
Weekly class on commentaries on the weekly Torah portion, with a focus on traditional medieval commentators (ex. Rashi, Ramban), along with midrashic texts and medieval commentators. Recording of class on February 17, 2013, taught by Yael Kalman.
Weekly class on commentaries on the weekly Torah portion, with a focus on traditional medieval commentators (ex. Rashi, Ramban), along with midrashic texts and medieval commentators. Recording of class on February 10, 2013, taught by Yael Kalman.
03:48 no dzkalman@gmail.com (David Zvi Kalman)David Zvi KalmanThis podcast is associated with Hadar Campus Scholars, which is itself a program of Mechon Hadar, an egalitarian, non-denominational yeshiva in New York Cit
Waiting for people to finish before leaving the syangogue and praying drunk.
03:30 no dzkalman@gmail.com (David Zvi Kalman)David Zvi KalmanThis podcast is associated with Hadar Campus Scholars, which is itself a program of Mechon Hadar, an egalitarian, non-denominational yeshiva in New York Cit