Introduction

In this week’s parsha, it says: “For this matter is very close to you–in your mouth and in your heart to do it.”  In this podcast, Rabbi Meir Schweiger examines a variety of readings of this verse to see how this verse, which not coincidentally is read every year before Rosh HaShana, has special meaning for our High Holiday experience.

Check out the latest online learning for the upcoming Holidays, including our Pardes Rosh Hashana Companion and a new podcast mini-series on Inspired Parenting. See https://pardes.levdev.co/rosh-hashana.

Credits:
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator

 

Meir Schweiger

Rabbi Meir Schweiger taught at Pardes for more than four decades before retiring in 2020. Originally from the Bronx, New York, he made aliyah in 1972. He studied at Yeshiva University, Yeshivat Kerem B’Yavneh and Yeshivat Har Etzion, received rabbinic ordination in Jerusalem, and later earned an M.Ed. in Teaching Bible from Herzog College.

At Pardes, Meir taught a wide range of subjects including Chumash, Talmud, Halakha and Siddur. He served as Mashgiach Ruhani, guiding the school’s spiritual life through coordinating and supervising tefillot, tiyulim, shabbatonim, and pre-holiday yemei iyun. For more than 10 years, Meir was also the Director of the Pardes Fellows’ Program for returning 2nd year students and the Educational Director of the Pardes Learning Seminar.