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Hanukah 5783: Forgetfulness that Leads to Blessed Discord

Introduction

During a holiday where there is both darkness and light, where we retreat indoors and shine brightly from the windowsill, go on a journey with Pardes North America to find meaning in the discord within our tradition.

Night 1 – Forgetfulness that Leads to Blessed Discord

Featuring Rabbi Dr. Meesh Hammer-Kossoy

Rav Hutner suggests that the Greek campaign to make us forget Torah succeeded, and that we are better off for it.

 

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Music Credits: Klezmer by Crowander is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Meesh Hammer-Kossoy

Rabbi Dr. Meesh Hammer-Kossoy is Director of the Year Program and Rosh Beit Midrash at Pardes, where she has taught since 1999. Originally from Washington, D.C., Meesh is a Pardes alumna herself, attending the Year Program in 1991-1992. Meesh holds degrees from Brandeis University and New York University, and received Orthodox ordination from Beit Midrash Har’el in 2015.

Meesh previously taught at NYU, Drisha, and Midreshet Lindenbaum. She has received multiple fellowships, including from ATID, the Memorial Foundation, and the National Foundation for Jewish Culture. Despite having written her doctoral dissertation about criminal punishment in the Talmudic period, Meesh is known by her husband and three children as a lover of mercy and kindness.

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