Turn it and Turn it

Confronting Christianity: Rabbinic Responses to the New Interfaith Reality with Maharat Rori Picker Neiss

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Judaism & Other Faiths"
Jews and Christians have lived together for 2000 years, through theological tension, cooperation, polemics, and violence. What are the theological issues that have defined each group’s identity over the course of time? How did each community read the Bible? Are there commonalities to be found between the kabbalistic and Hasidic traditions and Christianity?
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This audio was originally recorded on 12/27/2017 as part of Drisha's Winter Week. 

Jews and Christians in Rabbinic Sources: Christian Monks and the Talmud with Dr. Michal Bar-Asher Siegal

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Judaism & Other Faiths"
Jews and Christians have lived together for 2000 years, through theological tension, cooperation, polemics, and violence. What are the theological issues that have defined each group’s identity over the course of time? How did each community read the Bible? Are there commonalities to be found between the kabbalistic and Hasidic traditions and Christianity?
Click here to view the accompanying source sheets. 
This audio was originally recorded on 12/26/2017 as part of Drisha's Winter Week. 

Jews and Christians in Rabbinic Sources: Jesus in the Talmud with Dr. Michal Bar-Asher Siegal

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Judaism & Other Faiths" 
Jews and Christians have lived together for 2000 years, through theological tension, cooperation, polemics, and violence. What are the theological issues that have defined each group’s identity over the course of time? How did each community read the Bible? Are there commonalities to be found between the kabbalistic and Hasidic traditions and Christianity?
Click here to view the accompanying source sheet. 
This audio was originally recorded on 12/25/2017 as part of Drisha's Winter Week. 
 

Translating Cultures across Linguistic Divides: The Making of the Septuagint with Dr. Hindy Najman

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Judaism & Other Faiths"
 
This audio was originally recorded on 12/23/2015 as part of Drisha's Winter Week. 

Sabbath in the Abrahamic Faiths with Rabbi Dr. David Flatto

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Judaism & Other Faiths"
An exploration of the ways in which Jewish practices have affected, and have been affected by, Judaism's surrounding cultures. 
This audio was originally recorded on 02/24/2014 as part of Drisha's lecture series on the topic of Judaism and Other Cultures: Influence, Intersection, and Impact. 

Close Encounters of the Theological Kind with Shuli Taubes

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Judaism & Other Faiths" 
An exploration of the ways in which Jewish practices have affected, and have been affected by, Judaism's surrounding cultures.
Click here for the accompanying source sheet. 
This audio was originally recorded on 02/03/2014 as part of Drisha's  lecture series on the topic of Judaism and Other Cultures: Influence, Intersection, and Impact.

Abraham And The Absoluteness Of God with Dr. Jon D. Levenson

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Judaism & Other Faiths" 
An exploration of the ways in which Jewish practices have affected, and have been affected by, Judaism's surrounding cultures.
Click here to view the accompanying source sheet. 
This audio was originally recorded on 01/14/2014 as part of Drisha's lecture series on the topic of Judaism and Other Cultures: Influence, Intersection, and Impact.

Maimonides and Buber with Dr. Leora Batnitzky

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Judaism & Other Faiths"
What are the implications of Maimonides’ privileging our rational capacities over our imaginative ones, for his views on God, prayer, women, Christianity, and Islam? Similarly, what are the implications of Buber's privileging human relations over rationality for his views on God, prayer, women, Christianity and Islam?
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This audio was originally recorded on 12/23/2013 as part of Drisha's Winter Week. 

Heschel’s Transformative Hasidism (3/3) with Dr. Dror Bondi

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Chassidut"
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) is well known as one of the greatest Jewish-American thinkers and social activists. It is much less widely known that he had been destined to become a Hasidic rebbe, a fate eliminated by circumstance, but revisited in his final work, A Passion for Truth, which explored the relevance of Hasidism in modernity. In this online class we will read passages from this work in order to understand Heschel's interpretation of Hasidism as the source of his own philosophy and activism.
This audio was originally captured from Zoom on 09/20/2022

Heschel’s Transformative Hasidism (2/3) with Dr. Dror Bondi

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Chassidut"
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) is well known as one of the greatest Jewish-American thinkers and social activists. It is much less widely known that he had been destined to become a Hasidic rebbe, a fate eliminated by circumstance, but revisited in his final work, A Passion for Truth, which explored the relevance of Hasidism in modernity. In this online class we will read passages from this work in order to understand Heschel's interpretation of Hasidism as the source of his own philosophy and activism.
This audio was originally captured from Zoom on 09/13/2022