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Halakhic Response to Coronavirus: Should I Have a Zoom Seder with Rabbi Dr. Rabbi Shlomo Zuckier

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "COVID"
This audio was originally captured from Zoom on 04/05/2020

Caring for Others, the Torah, and Ourselves: Jewish Perspectives on the Ethics of Care (3/3) with Sarah Zager

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Ethics"
In this 3-part series we’ll explore how the experience of caring for others in need—including young children, the sick, and the elderly— shapes our religious lives. Using sources ranging from the Talmud to contemporary philosophy, we’ll consider how experiences of care enrich our understanding of halakhah and religious obligation, and how these experiences can help us express our hopes for the future.
Care ethics often highlights the experiences of parents (especially mothers) caring for newborn babies and young children. In this session, we’ll use a series of aggadot to consider other places where care might appear, including infertility, pregnancy loss, and mourning. We’ll use these sources to explore how analyzing these experiences can expand our sense of what care and religious obligation look like.
This audio was originally captured from Zoom on 12/20/2020 as part of Drisha's Fall Zman. 

Caring for Others, the Torah, and Ourselves: Jewish Perspectives on the Ethics of Care (2/3) with Sarah Zager

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Ethics"
In this 3-part series we’ll explore how the experience of caring for others in need—including young children, the sick, and the elderly— shapes our religious lives. Using sources ranging from the Talmud to contemporary philosophy, we’ll consider how experiences of care enrich our understanding of halakhah and religious obligation, and how these experiences can help us express our hopes for the future.
In this session we’ll compare two accounts of ethical and halakhic hiyuv or “obligation” from Emmanuel Levinas and Mara Benjamin. We’ll explore how the ethics of care can help us enrich our sense of what obligation means in both our own daily lives, as well as in Jewish texts.
This audio was originally captured from Zoom on 12/13/2020 as part of Drisha's Fall Zman. 

Caring for Others, the Torah, and Ourselves: Jewish Perspectives on the Ethics of Care (1/3) with Sarah Zager

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Ethics"
In this 3-part series we’ll explore how the experience of caring for others in need—including young children, the sick, and the elderly— shapes our religious lives. Using sources ranging from the Talmud to contemporary philosophy, we’ll consider how experiences of care enrich our understanding of halakhah and religious obligation, and how these experiences can help us express our hopes for the future.
This first session will serve as an introduction to care ethics. We’ll explore some of the key philosophical ideas that care ethicists have presented, and then use them to analyze a few sugyout about how caring for children can make us better halakhic decision-makers
This audio was originally captured from Zoom on 12/06/2020 as part of Drisha's Fall Zman.

The End of Humility : משמת רבי בטלה ענוה ויראת חטא with Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Zuckier

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Ethics"
Perek Egla Arufa: The Mishnah and Gemara at the end of our Perek discuss the devolution and end of various qualities and experiences. This shiur focuses on material at the end of the perek and delves into the connections between ritual, ethics, and cultivating a sense of humility. 
Click here to view the accompanying source sheet. 
This audio was originally captured from Zoom on 08/12/2020 as Shiur Klali for Drisha's Summer Kollel. 

צער גידול בנים Pain of Raising Children: Using Care Ethics to Understand Jewish Leadership with Sarah Zager

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Ethics"
In this session, Sarah Zager explores how recent shifts in moral philosophy can help us understand why the rabbis require that a judge on a Sanhedrin be a parent. What do the rabbis think that the experience of parenting teaches a potential judge? How does this help us understand what it means to be a halakhic thinker and leader?
This audio was originally captured from Zoom on 07/16/2020. 

The World in a Classroom: Teaching and Learning With Moral Urgency with Dr. Ilana Blumberg in conversation with Dr. Devora Steinmetz

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Ethics"
Join Ilana Blumberg and Devora Steinmetz as they discuss the ethical challenges and moral potential of education. Dr. Blumberg will share insights from her experience teaching in settings as varied as an early childhood classroom in a New York City day school, an inner-city public school in Detroit, and universities in the United States and Israel. Dr. Blumberg will also read excerpts from her new book, Open Your Hand: Teaching as Jew, Teaching as an American (Rutgers University Press, 2018).
Dedicated in memory of Terry Satinover Fagen.
This audio was originally recorded on 01/24/2020. 

Ve-Asita ha-Yashar ve-HaTov: Halakha and Ethics in the Talmud and Today Rabbi Shlomo Zuckier

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Ethics" 
This audio was originally recorded 12/25/2019 as part of the Winter Day of Learning presented by Drisha and Lincoln Square Synagogue. 

Is it Wrong to be Ethical? Ethics, Halakhah, and Philosophy of Law with Dr. Daniel Rynhold

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Ethics" 
It’s clear on the one hand that Judaism requires ethical behavior of us. But does it require such behavior because it is ethical? Or is it required for legal reasons that have little to do with ethics? Might it even be religiously wrong for us to behave ethically on the basis of ethical reasoning? In this session we will explore the nexus between Judaism and ethics and some of the very different attitudes towards the relationship between them.
Introduction by Rabbi David Silber.
This audio was originally recorded 12/25/2019 as part of the Winter Day of Learning Presented by Drisha and Lincoln Square Synagogue

Water Wears Away Stone: How Halakhah Shapes Us as Ethical Agents with Sarah Zager

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Ethics" 
This audio was originally recorded on 12/25/2019 for Winter Day of Learning Presented by Drisha and Lincoln Square Synagogue