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November 3, 2024
All Israel Are Guarantors for One Another: The History of a Metaphor
Beruriah is the only female scholar mentioned by name in the Talmud. She is simultaneously a part... more
Dr. Ayelet Hoffmann Libson

Dr. Ayelet Hoffmann Libson

Dr. Ayelet Hoffmann Libson is a scholar of Talmud and Jewish law, and serves as assistant professor of law at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya. She received a B.A. from the Hebrew University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from New York University. She is also a graduate of the MaTaN Advanced Talmud Institute and the Beit Morasha Program in Jewish Law. In 2017-2018 she was the Gruss Visiting Professor of Jewish Law at Harvard Law School, and she has also served as a research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute. Her first book is entitled Law and Self-Knowledge in the Talmud (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

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September 24, 2024
Reliving the Yom Kippur Temple Service Today
Beruriah is the only female scholar mentioned by name in the Talmud. She is simultaneously a part... more
Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Zuckier

Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Zuckier

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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September 18, 2024
Prayers of Renewal: Biblical Inspirations in the Liturgy of Yamim Noraim
Beruriah is the only female scholar mentioned by name in the Talmud. She is simultaneously a part... more
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September 18, 2024
A dramatic day in dramatic times: Extraordinary Yom Kippur Observances throughout Jewish History
Beruriah is the only female scholar mentioned by name in the Talmud. She is simultaneously a part... more
Channa Lockshin Bob

Channa Lockshin Bob

Channa Lockshin Bob is an alumna of the Drisha Scholars Circle. She teaches at Midreshet Lindenbaum and taught Gemara and Halakhah at Maayanot Yeshiva High School for girls and at Drisha.

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September 15, 2024
Zeh Dor Dor’shav: Reflections on Psalms on Repentance?
Beruriah is the only female scholar mentioned by name in the Talmud. She is simultaneously a part... more
Rabbi David Silber

Rabbi David Silber

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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September 10, 2024
Teshuvah & Modernity: Themes in Rav Soloveitchik’s Discussions of Teshuvah
Beruriah is the only female scholar mentioned by name in the Talmud. She is simultaneously a part... more
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September 9, 2024
Teshuvah and/versus Self-Acceptance
Beruriah is the only female scholar mentioned by name in the Talmud. She is simultaneously a part... more
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September 5, 2024
Seeking God, Seeking Ourselves: Teshuvah in the Thought of Rav Aharon Lichtenstein
Beruriah is the only female scholar mentioned by name in the Talmud. She is simultaneously a part... more
Nathaniel Helfgot

Nathaniel Helfgot

Nathaniel Helfgot is chair of the dept of Talmud and Rabbinics at the SAR High School in New York City. He serves as spiritual leader of Congregation Netivot Shalom in Teaneck, NJ . He is on the faculty of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School and the Wexner Heritage Program. An alumnus of the Jerusalem Fellows program, he received ordina­tion from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and has an MA in Education from the David J. Azrieli Graduate School.

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August 15, 2024
Thoughts on Parashat Ki Teitzei with Esther Fisher
Esther Fisher

Esther Fisher

Esther Fisher has taught in Drisha’s collegiate programs and teaches Talmud and Jewish studies at Midreshet Ein Hanatziv in Israel and is a facilitator and co-founder of ‘Nigun Nashim’ – Women’s Beit Midrash of the Elga Stulman Woman’s Institute for Jewish Studies of Hamidrasha in Oranim (an Educational Center for the Renewal of Jewish Life in Israel). She has an MA in Talmud from Hebrew University and is currently pursuing a PhD at the Gender Department of Bar Ilan University. Her academic interests include rabbinic literature, midrash and halakha, and their relation to gender and feminist theory and thought.

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August 8, 2024
Opening Remarks from the Jack Flamholz Memorial Yom Iyun by David Silber and Avi Flamholz
Thoughts on the weekly Parasha with Rabbi David... more
Rabbi David Silber

Rabbi David Silber

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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August 8, 2024
Reflections on my teacher, Rav Aharon Lichtenstein, zt”l
Thoughts on the weekly Parasha with Rabbi David... more
Rabbi David Silber

Rabbi David Silber

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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May 22, 2024
“I left here full and have returned empty”: Loss and Recovery in the Book of Ruth
Summer series 2019 “Moments of Creation.” Discuss the mitzvah of P’ru u-Revu, God’s... more
Rabba Wendy Amsellem

Rabba Wendy Amsellem

Rabba Wendy Amsellem teaches Talmud and Halakha at Yeshivat Maharat and directs The Beit Midrash Program, a joint project of Maharat and Yeshivat Chovevei Torah. She also teaches regularly at Drisha, Pardes, and the Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center.  Rabba Wendy received semikha from Yeshivat Maharat and is an alumna of the Drisha Scholars Circle. She has a BA in History and Literature from Harvard University.

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