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October 12, 2022
The End of Shemittah: Community Conversation
As we come to the end of the Shemittah year–but not the end of Shemittah–we would like our community to... more
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Michael Fraade

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Michael Fraade is a rabbinical student at Hebrew College, a pluralistic institution in Newton, MA. After earning a BA in history from Yale University, he spent five years in the South working as the Jewish Outdoor, Food, and Environmental Education Director at the Louisville, Kentucky JCC and on a number of small farms. Michael has learned Torah at Hadar, Drisha, Pardes, the Conservative Yeshiva, and Yashrut, and is also an alumnus of Hazon’s JOFEE Fellowship. He has previously worked for Drisha as the Assistant Program Director.

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December 29, 2021
“Ki Li HaAretz”: Changes in Meaning of “The Holy Place” (and Zionism) in Heschel’s Thought
Shemittah’s social laws reflect a deep religious attitude to the “holy land.” Since the rise of Zionism, this term has... more
Dr. Dror Bondi

Dr. Dror Bondi

Years of Experience
7 Lectures

Dror Bondi is dedicated to bringing Abraham Joshua Heschel’s thought to Israel, translating his words into Hebrew and transforming Israel by his spirit. Dror has a doctorate in Jewish Thought from Bar-Ilan University and his dissertation, Heschel’s Hermeniutics, will be published next year. Dror has translated several of Heschel’s books into Hebrew. He is the author of Where Art Thou? which won the Shalem Prize in 2006. He lives with his family in Jerusalem in Beit Yisrael, an urban-kibbutz community of religious and non-religious Jews who unite together in social and spiritual activism.

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December 2, 2021
Shemittah in the Mishnah: Challenges and Opportunities
This class will undertake the close study of Mishnayot Sheviit BeIyyun, working through the Masechta with a focus on literary... more
Rabbi Avie Walfish

Rabbi Avie Walfish

Years of Experience
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Until his recent retirement, Avraham (Avie) Walfish taught Talmud and Jewish Thought at the Herzog College in Alon Shvut, and headed the M.Ed. program in teaching Talmud and Jewish Thought in Michlala College in Jerusalem.  At Yeshiva University he completed his B.A. in philosophy, while studying Talmud with Rav Aharon Lichtenstein and Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveichik. After making aliyah, he received his rabbinic ordination from R. Zalman Nehemiah Goldberg and completed his M.A. and Ph.D. at Hebrew University, writing his dissertation on literary features of Mishnah. He has taught and lectured in many frameworks in Israel and abroad, including Pardes Institute, Bar Ilan University, and Drisha. His extensive publications in different areas of Jewish studies include the Iyun Mishnah website and a recently published commentary on Mishnah Berakhot, Mishnaic Tapestries. In 2005 he was awarded the Prize of the Israeli Minister of Education for creative work in Jewish culture.

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December 2, 2021
Covenantal Commandment: The Sabbatical Year in the Bible
The Torah sees the commandment of the Shemitah as a central observance with far-reaching social, ethical, and religious implications. We... more
Rabbi David Silber

Rabbi David Silber

Years of Experience
362 Lectures

David Silber is the founder and dean of Drisha Institute for Jewish Education in New York and Israel. Rabbi Silber received ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. He is a recipient of the Covenant Award, for excellence in innovative Jewish education, and is the author of A Passover Haggadah: Go Forth and Learn (Jewish Publication Society 2011), For Such a Time as This: Biblical Reflections in the Book of Esther (Koren Publishers 2017), and Malkhut Adam: Iyunim Bsefer Shmuel (Maggid 2021). He is also a nationally acclaimed lecturer on the Bible. Rabbi Silber is married to Dr. Devora Steinmetz. They have eight children and live in New York City.

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December 2, 2021
A Sabbath of the Land for You: Shemittah, Ethics, and Jewish Philosophy
While Shemittah may appear to be a narrow topic linked specifically to agricultural laws in the land of Israel, this... more
Sarah Zager

Sarah Zager

Years of Experience
8 Lectures

Sarah Zager received her PhD from Yale University in 2022, where her research focused on the influence of Judaism and Christianity on moral philosophy. Originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico, Sarah earned an MA in Religion from the University of Chicago Divinity School and a BA from Williams College. She was awarded the Leo Baeck Fellowship for the study of German Jewry, and was a David Hartman Center Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. She has also learned at Yeshivat Hadar. She has written for The Lehrhaus, JewSchool, The Journal of Jewish Ethics, and Nashim.

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Ranana Dine

Ranana Dine

Years of Experience
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Ranana Dine is a Doctoral Student at the University of Chicago Divinity School, where she specializes in religious ethics. She is the managing editor of IMAGES: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture and a research assistant at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. She is a proud alumna of Drisha high school and college programs. 

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November 9, 2021
Shemittah: Radical Perspectives on Society, Land and the Individual
The Biblical descriptions of Shemittah, and other laws regarding Tzedaka, pose a challenge to the normal rules that govern the... more
Rabbanit Gilla Rosen

Rabbanit Gilla Rosen

Years of Experience
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Rabbanit Gilla Rosen teaches Talmud and Midrash and works as a Yoetzet Halakha (Halakhic advisor) for Nishmat. Rabbanit Rosen is dean of the Yakar Center for Tradtition and Creativity. Gilla studied at the Michlala College for Women, Barnard, the University of Manchester, Matan and Nishmat. She received her MA in Comparative Literature. She has lectured at Pardes, Matan, Midreshet Lindenbaum and the Melton Program at Hebrew University. She lives in Jerusalem with her children and grandchildren.

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November 4, 2021
Pruzbol: A Talmud Shiur
The Mishnah in the fourth chapter of Gittin lists a number of Rabbinic decrees created “mi-penei tikkun ha-olam,” for the... more
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Rabbanit Leah Sarna
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Rabbanit Leah Sarna

Years of Experience
31 Lectures

Rabbanit Leah Sarna is the Associate Director of Education and Director of High School Programs at Drisha. She previously served as Director of Religious Engagement at Anshe Sholom B’nai Israel Congregation in Chicago, a leading urban Orthodox congregation.

She was ordained at Yeshivat Maharat in 2018, holds a BA from Yale University in Philosophy & Psychology, and also trained at the SKA Beit Midrash for Women at Migdal Oz, Drisha and the Center for Modern Torah Leadership. Rabbanit Sarna’s published works have appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Lehrhaus and MyJewishLearning.

She has lectured in Orthodox synagogues and Jewish communal settings around the world and loves spreading her warm, energetic love for Torah and Mitzvot with Jews in all stages of life.

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November 3, 2021
Contemporary Shemittah: Challenges and Compliance, Relevance and Rebirth
The biblical charge of Shemittah, wherein the land must lie fallow for an entire year on a regular basis, originally... more
Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Zuckier

Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Zuckier

Years of Experience
23 Lectures

Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Zuckier is Director of Education and a member of the Drisha faculty. A Research Fellow in Philosophy of Religion at Notre Dame, he received his PhD in Ancient Judaism at Yale University and was a member of Yeshiva University’s Kollel Elyon. Previously he served as Director of the Orthodox Union’s Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus at Yale University and as the Flegg postdoctoral fellow in Jewish Studies at McGill University.

Shlomo is an alumnus of Yeshivat Har Etzion and RIETS, as well as of the Wexner and Tikvah Fellowships. He has lectured and taught widely across North America, as well as at Yale Divinity School, Yeshiva University, the Tikvah Fund, and Bnot Sinai. A Founder of The Lehrhaus, Shlomo serves on the Editorial Committee of Tradition and has edited two books on contemporary Jewish thought.

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