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Professor Kenneth Seeskin, Northwestern University, discusses "Maimonides on the Days of the Messiah—Restorative or Utopian?"
Is human effort all that is needed to bring the Messiah? Will we one day recognize that wealth and power are not the ultimate goal?
The Renewal of the Covenant- Humanity Come of Age. The third in a series on Contemporary Jewish Philosophy by The Tikvah Institute for Jewish Thought at JTS, Rabbi Irving “Yitz” Greenberg delivers a lecture entitled "The Renewal of the Covenant- Humanity Come of Age."
Published 11/01/11
Professor Lenn Goodman, Vanderbilt University, delivers a lecture "On Holiness."
"You shall be holy, for I the Lord, thy God, am holy" (Lev. 19:2). But if holiness is defined as transcendence, how do we emulate God's transcendence?
Published 10/31/11
Professor Michael Morgan, University of Toronto, delivers a talk as part of the Tikvah Institute’s lecture series on Contemporary Jewish Philosophy, entitled "Can There Be Judaism Without Revelation? Continuity and Discontinuity in Fackenheim's Jewish Thought.
Published 10/31/11