This episode is part Pardes’s Community Education Fall Lecture Series: Complex Identities in Israeli Society. This episode featured Rabbi Dr. Sam Lebens – Birth of the Person; Embrace of a People: Descartes, Locke and the Challenge of Jewish Conversion. December…
Podcast Series, Pardes Live and Mini-Series
Why kill a goat, or swing a chicken round your head, or throw crumbs into a river to expiate your sins? Is this mere symbolism, or is there something more fundamental going on? In this episode, we attempt to shed…
Podcast Series, Pardes Live and Mini-Series, Jewish Calendar, Rosh Hashana, Self & Spirituality, Teshuvah
Are we supposed to remember our sins forever, even after we’ve repented? Or, should we forget them? The Talmud seems to say one thing, and Rav Tzadok Hacohen of Lublin, seems to say another. In this episode of Teshuva and…
Podcast Series, Pardes Live and Mini-Series, Jewish Calendar, Rosh Hashana, Self & Spirituality, Teshuvah
When we repent, there is a sense in which we’re seeking to undo damage done. It’s almost as if we’re trying to undo the past. How seriously should we take this metaphor? Is the past something that can be undone?…
Podcast Series, Pardes Live and Mini-Series, Self & Spirituality, Reflection, Jewish Calendar, Rosh Hashana