HIGH HOLIDAYS LECTURES
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We are delighted to present a selection of interesting lectures related to the Jewish Holidays by leading scholars in their field delivered at the Oxford University Chabad Society's Slager Jewish Student Centre. To view the full collection of close to 250 lectures visit: www.oxfordjewishlectures.com
'The Great Mother: Using Kabbalistic Texts to Find a New Prism Through Which to Enter the High Holidays' RABBI ADAM KLIGFELD Los Angeles Click here to view the lecture. |
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'The Musical Instruments of the Bible: Shofars, Trumpets, Cymbals and More' PROF. JEREMY MONTAGU Wadham College, Oxford Click here to view the lecture |
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'Jewish Prayer and Poetry' ZOHAR ATKINS Click here to view the lecture |
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'Unesanneh Tokef Piyut: Perspectives on the High-Holiday Prayer' RABBI Y EHUDAH BLACK Kenton Synagogue Click here to view the lecture.
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'The Importance of Jewish Pride' LORD MICHAEL LEVY Click here to view the lecture. |
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'Perspectives on the Binding of Isaac' STEVEN ZIMMER CEO of MitoDys Therapeutics, Oxford Click here to view the lecture. |
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'G‑d as King' Click here to view the lecture. *** 'Talmudic Astronomy in Talmud Rosh Hashana' Click here to view the lecture. *** 'Jewish High Holidays as a mystical journey' Click here to view the lecture. *** 'Individuality and Oneness' Click here to view the lecture. *** 'Two Faces of Man and their Integration' (2021) Click here to view the lecture. *** 'Kabbalah as organic to everyday Baghdadi Jewish life: A view from the archive of Chief Rabbi Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor' (2022) Click here to view the lecture. |
DR. ISRAEL SANDMAN University College London |
'The Epistemology of Repentance' DR. DANIEL RABINOWITZ University of Oxford Click here to view the lecture. |
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'Unintentional Transgression in Jewish Law: A Talmudic Discussion in Sukkot on the Parameters of Intent' RABBI YAAKOV WOLBERG Click here to view the lecture |
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'Rosh Hashanah in Medieval England' (2020) Click here to view the lecture. *** 'Rabbi Yom Tov of York: A liturgical poet and Tosafist who led the community of York, martyred in the massacre of 1190' Click here to view the lecture. *** 'Kol Nidrei in Manuscript' Click here to view the lecture. *** 'As the Hart that panteth after the water brooks (Psalm 42:1): Jewish New Year reflections into an Oxford college coat of arms' (2021) Click here to view the lecture. *** 'The Yom Kippur Piyyut: Ki anu ame-cha (for we are Your nation) through Oxford's Hebrew manuscript machzorim' (2022) Click here to view the lecture. |
RABBI ELI BRACKMAN Oxford University Chabad Society |
'Rosh Hashanah and the Beginning of Chassidic History' Click here to view the lecture. *** 'Our Father, Our King' Click here to view the lecture. *** 'Exploring a Chassidic Discourse on the Meaning of the Shofar' Click here to view the lecture. *** 'Deconstructing Sin' Click here to view the lecture. *** 'The history and meaning of Kol Nidrei' Click here to view the lecture. *** 'Rosh Hashanah, the Land of Israel and the world in Habad Hasidic Thought (2021)' Click here to view the lecture. *** 'Are the Days of Awe also a time of love: Thoughts on the personal dimension of the High Holidays' (2022) Click here to view the lecture. |
DR. NAFTALI LOEWENTHAL University College London
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'Alphabetical Prayers in the High Holiday Liturgy' SARAH MONTAGU Click here to view the lecture. |
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'Teshuvah - Returning to G‑d: Why Yom Kippur is the Happiest day of the year' REBECCA BLUMENFELD Click here to view the lecture. |
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'The Judgement of the High Holidays' DR. AKIVA BOGDANOV Click here to view the lecture. |
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'Rosh Hashanah: A festival for the whole world' RABBI DR. SHIMON COWEN Click here to view the lecture. |
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'The essence of Teshuva - to appreciate every human being' RABBI NAFTALI ROTHENBERG Click here to view the lecture. |
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'Importance of the last week of the year' MEIR WACHS Click here to view the lecture. |
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'The Functions of Rosh (head) and its uses in Hebrew' PROF. ORA SCHWARTZWALD Click here to view the lecture. |
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'Strait is the Gate' (2020) Click here to view the lecture. *** 'Not calling a spade a spade: the power of allusion' (2021) Click here to view the lecture. *** 'The Queen is in her parlour' (2022) Click here to view the lecture.
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DR. ROS ABRAMSKY |
'The Rebuke of Simplicity: From the Book of Jonah to Michael Sandel' RABBI FRANCIS NATAF Click here to view the lecture. |
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'The Day of Atonement does not excuse sins against your fellow beings' (2020) Click here to view the lecture. *** 'The Power of Prayer' (2022) Click here to view the the lecture. |
BRIAN DEUTSCH |
'What we didn't see at Sinai: How Rosh Hashanah is both a day of Judgment and a Festival DR. GABRIEL SAPIR Click here to view the lecture. |
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'The High Holiday piyut U'Nesaneh Tokef' (2021) PAMELA BRENNER Click here to view the lecture. |
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“Beware! Of making (2021) PROF. TOVA FORTI Click here to view the lecture.
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'Ecclesiastes and Human Freedom' (2021) DAVID FRISCH Click here to view the lecture. |
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'The power of repentance' (2021) AVI BLUMGART Click here to view the lecture. |
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'Vanity of vanities and flies in the ointment: what’s the point of Qohelet?' (2021) PROF. ALISON SALVESEN Click here to view the lecture. |
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'The Akedah in the Late-Antique Synagogue' (2022) DR. YEHOSHUA GRANAT Click here to view the lecture. |
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'The Yom Kippur Piyut, Ki Hinei Kachomer: G‑d as Craftsman' (2022) YONATAN REICH Click here to view the lecture. |
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To view past lectures delivered at the Oxford University Chabad Society visit: www.oxfordjewishlectures.com
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