Description
Looking into the sources of the Jewish calendar, we find more confusion than clarity. Different rabbinic texts propose different shemita calculations, putting everything in doubt. This class looks at the confusion, and tries to find - not the truth, but what to learn from the process.
* You can find the sourcesheet with all the texts here: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/353689?editor=1
* A project of 58th Century Judaisms: https://www.58thcentury.world/
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Some post-Pesach thoughts.... if chametz is so bad, why does Jewish law require it? Why is chametz central to Shavuot, and to life? Rebbe Nachman gives us some clues.
*Sources can be found here: www.sefaria.org/sheets/33290?lang=bi
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Published 05/02/22
One text leads to another, faces are masks are words are invitations are interpretations. We go on a journey within Jewish law and lore, from wedding feasts to Purim costumes to heretical readings of the Torah.
You can find all the texts here, and maybe reading along will make the listening...
Published 03/29/22