High Holidays Lectures at the Oxford University Chabad Society

'The Great Mother: Using

Kabbalistic Texts to Find a

New Prism Through Which to

Enter the High Holidays'

RABBI ADAM KLIGFELD

Los Angeles

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'The Musical Instruments

of the Bible:

Shofars, Trumpets,

Cymbals and More'

PROF. JEREMY MONTAGU

Wadham College, Oxford 

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'Jewish Prayer and Poetry'

ZOHAR ATKINS

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'Unesanneh Tokef Piyut: 

Perspectives on the High-Holiday

Prayer'

RABBI Y EHUDAH BLACK

Kenton Synagogue 

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'The Importance of Jewish

Pride' 

LORD MICHAEL LEVY

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'Perspectives on the Binding

of Isaac'

  STEVEN ZIMMER

CEO of MitoDys

Therapeutics, Oxford 

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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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DR. ISRAEL SANDMAN 

University College London  

'The Epistemology

of Repentance'

DR. DANIEL RABINOWITZ

University of Oxford

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'Unintentional Transgression

in Jewish Law: A Talmudic

Discussion in Sukkot

on the Parameters

of Intent'

RABBI YAAKOV WOLBERG

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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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RABBI ELI BRACKMAN

Oxford University Chabad

Society  

'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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DR. NAFTALI LOEWENTHAL

University College London 

      'Alphabetical Prayers in the

High Holiday Liturgy'

SARAH MONTAGU

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'Teshuvah - Returning to G‑d: 

Why Yom Kippur is the

Happiest day of the year'

REBECCA BLUMENFELD

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'The Judgement of the High 

Holidays'

DR. AKIVA BOGDANOV

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'Rosh Hashanah:

A festival for the whole world'

RABBI DR.

SHIMON COWEN

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'The essence of Teshuva -

to appreciate every

human being'

RABBI NAFTALI

ROTHENBERG

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'Importance of the

last week of the year'

MEIR WACHS

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'The Functions of Rosh (head)

and its uses in Hebrew'

PROF. ORA

SCHWARTZWALD 

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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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DR. ROS ABRAMSKY

'The Rebuke of Simplicity:

From the Book of Jonah

to Michael Sandel'

RABBI FRANCIS NATAF

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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

'What we didn't see at Sinai:

How Rosh Hashanah is both

a day of Judgment

and a Festival

DR. GABRIEL SAPIR 

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'The High Holiday piyut

U'Nesaneh Tokef'

(2021)

PAMELA BRENNER

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“Beware! Of making

many books there

is no end” (Qohelet 12:12):

From the Workshop

of a Commentator'

(2021)

PROF. TOVA FORTI

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'Ecclesiastes and

Human Freedom'

(2021)

DAVID FRISCH

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'The power of repentance'

(2021)

AVI BLUMGART

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'Vanity of vanities

and flies in the ointment:

what’s the point of Qohelet?'

(2021)

PROF. ALISON SALVESEN

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'The Akedah in the

Late-Antique Synagogue'

(2022)

DR. YEHOSHUA GRANAT

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'The Yom Kippur Piyut, 

Ki Hinei Kachomer: 

G‑d as Craftsman'

(2022)

YONATAN REICH

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