High Holidays Lectures at the Oxford University Chabad Society

Rabbi Adam Kligfeld

'The Great Mother: Using

Kabbalistic Texts to Find a

New Prism Through Which to

Enter the High Holidays'

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Prof. Jeremy Montagu

'The Musical Instruments

of the Bible:

Shofars, Trumpets,

Cymbals and More'

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Zohar Atkins

'Jewish Prayer and Poetry'

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Rabbi Yehudah Black

'Unesanneh Tokef Piyut: 

Perspectives on the High-Holiday

Prayer'

Kenton Synagogue 

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Lord Michael Levy

'The Importance of Jewish

Pride' 

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Steven Zimmer

'Perspectives on the Binding

of Isaac'

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'G‑d as King'

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'Talmudic Astronomy in

Talmud

Rosh Hashana'

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'Jewish High Holidays as a

mystical journey'

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'Individuality and Oneness'

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'Two Faces of Man

and their Integration'

(2021)

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'Kabbalah as organic to

everyday Baghdadi Jewish life:

A view from the archive of

Chief Rabbi Hakham

Ezra Reuben Dangoor'

(2022)

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'The Lubavitcher Rebbe

interprets

Rabbi Shneur Zalman's

parable of the

King in the Field'

(2024)

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DR. ISRAEL SANDMAN   

Dr. Dani Rabinowitz

'The Epistemology

of Repentance'

University of Oxford

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Rabbi Yaakov Wolberg

'Unintentional Transgression

in Jewish Law: A Talmudic

Discussion in Sukkot

on the Parameters

of Intent'

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'Rosh Hashanah in

Medieval England'

(2020)

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'Rabbi Yom Tov of York: 

A liturgical poet and

Tosafist who led the

community of

York, martyred in the

massacre of 1190'

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'Kol Nidrei in

Manuscript'

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'As the Hart that panteth

after the water brooks

(Psalm 42:1):

Jewish New Year reflections

into an Oxford

college coat of arms'

(2021)

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'The Yom Kippur Piyyut:

Ki anu ame-cha

(for we are Your nation)

through Oxford's Hebrew

manuscript machzorim'

(2022)

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'Rosh Hashanah as a day of

celebration in the manuscript

o f 16th c. Italian

R. Elijah Menachem Chalfan'

(2024)

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RABBI ELI BRACKMAN

'Rosh Hashanah and the

Beginning of Chassidic

History'

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'Our Father, Our King'

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'Exploring a Chassidic

Discourse

on the Meaning of the Shofar'

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'Deconstructing Sin'

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'The history and meaning of

Kol Nidrei' 

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'Rosh Hashanah,

the Land of Israel

and the world in

Habad Hasidic Thought

(2021)'

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'Are the Days of Awe

also a time of love:

Thoughts on the personal

dimension of the

High Holidays'

(2022)

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'Yom Kippur: Pure delight!

Reflections on a

Chassidic teaching'

(2024)

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DR. NAFTALI LOEWENTHAL

    Sarah Montagu

'Alphabetical Prayers in the

High Holiday Liturgy'

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Rebecca Blumnefeld

'Teshuvah - Returning to G‑d: 

Why Yom Kippur is the

Happiest day of the year'

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Dr. Akiva Bogdanov

'The Judgement of the High 

Holidays'

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Rabbi Dr. Shimon Cowen

'Rosh Hashanah:

A festival for the whole world'

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Rabbi Naftali Rothenberg

'The essence of Teshuva -

to appreciate every

human being'

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Meir Wachs

'Importance of the

last week of the year'

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Prof. Ora Schwartzwald

'The Functions of Rosh (head)

and its uses in Hebrew'

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'Strait is the Gate'

(2020)

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'Not calling a spade

a spade:

the power of allusion'

(2021)

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'The Queen is in her parlour'

(2022)

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'The Worm in the Apple'

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(2024)

DR. ROS ABRAMSKY

Rabbi Francis Nataf

'The Rebuke of Simplicity:

From the Book of Jonah

to Michael Sandel'

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'The Day of Atonement does

not excuse sins against

your fellow beings'

(2020)

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'The Power of Prayer'

(2022)

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BRIAN DEUTSCH

Dr. Gabriel Sapir

'What we didn't see at Sinai:

How Rosh Hashanah is both

a day of Judgment

and a Festival'

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Pamela Brenner

'The High Holiday piyut

U'Nesaneh Tokef'

(2021)

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Prof. Tova Forti

“Beware! Of making

many books there

is no end” (Qohelet 12:12):

From the Workshop

of a Commentator'

(2021)

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David Frisch

'Ecclesiastes and

Human Freedom'

(2021)

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AVI BLUMGART

'The power of repentance'

(2021)

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'Repentance:

A contemporary approach'

(2024)

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Prof. Alison Salvesen

'Vanity of vanities

and flies in the ointment:

what’s the point of Qohelet?'

(2021)

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DR. YEHOSHUA GRANAT

'The Akedah in the

Late-Antique Synagogue'

(2022)

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Yonatan Reich

'The Yom Kippur Piyut, 

Ki Hinei Kachomer: 

G‑d as Craftsman'

(2022)

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Professor Karl E. Grözinger

'Between Rosh ha-Shanah

and Yom Kippur:

Kafka‘s Novel the Trial'

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Moshe Tzvi Wieder

'Oseh HaShalom:

Origins of a Custom'

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Professor Paul Franks

‘Mesilat Yesharim and

its Kabballistic Foundations’

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Rabbi Menashe Shapiro 

‘Hashem Melech,

Hashem Moloch,

Bonim, v'Avodim:

The Names and Our

Relationships With The Divine’

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Professor Meir Buzaglo

‘Repentance: A Philosophical

Excursion Around Jewish Sources’

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Professor Reuven Kimelman

Why is the Aleinu prayer

so central to the

High Holiday liturgy?

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