Turn it and Turn it

The Invention of the Seven-Day Week (1/5) with Dr. Ezra Zuckerman Sivan

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Labour & Rest"
This course covers two main themes based on a forthcoming book by Ezra Zuckerman Sivan: 1) the Torah as heralding the invention of the seven-day week, and secondarily 2) the social scientific question of how and why the seven-day week was invented. Each lecture is focused on a specific puzzle that gains its significance once we shake off our erroneous intuition that the seven-day week is built into the natural world. The key sources used in each session will be biblical, augmented by insights from rabbinic texts.
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This audio was originally captured from Zoom on 03/03/2022 as part of Drisha's Spring Zman. 

Navigating the Employer-Employee Relationship (6/6) with Rabbi Jonathan Ziring

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Labour & Rest" 
As work has moved remote for many, and others are hesitant to return to their jobs for a variety of reasons, the world is rethinking what it means to be an employer or employee. In this series, we will explore a number of topics that address the nature of the employer-employee relationship, highlighting the rights and responsibilities of both sides. Among others, we will address the halakhic perspective on multiple employment, unionization, strikes, quitting, and paying workers on time.
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This audio was originally captured from Zoom on 04/06/2022 as part of Drisha's Spring Zman. 

Navigating the Employer-Employee Relationship (5/6) with Rabbi Jonathan Ziring

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Labour & Rest" 
As work has moved remote for many, and others are hesitant to return to their jobs for a variety of reasons, the world is rethinking what it means to be an employer or employee. In this series, we will explore a number of topics that address the nature of the employer-employee relationship, highlighting the rights and responsibilities of both sides. Among others, we will address the halakhic perspective on multiple employment, unionization, strikes, quitting, and paying workers on time.
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This audio was originally captured from Zoom on 03/30/2022 as part of Drisha's Spring Zman. 

Navigating the Employer-Employee Relationship (4/6) with Rabbi Jonathan Ziring

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Labour & Rest" 
As work has moved remote for many, and others are hesitant to return to their jobs for a variety of reasons, the world is rethinking what it means to be an employer or employee. In this series, we will explore a number of topics that address the nature of the employer-employee relationship, highlighting the rights and responsibilities of both sides. Among others, we will address the halakhic perspective on multiple employment, unionization, strikes, quitting, and paying workers on time.
Click here to view the accompanying source sheet. 
This audio was originally captured from Zoom on 03/23/2022 as part of Drisha's Spring Zman. 

Navigating the Employer-Employee Relationship (3/6) with Rabbi Jonathan Ziring

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Labour & Rest" 
As work has moved remote for many, and others are hesitant to return to their jobs for a variety of reasons, the world is rethinking what it means to be an employer or employee. In this series, we will explore a number of topics that address the nature of the employer-employee relationship, highlighting the rights and responsibilities of both sides. Among others, we will address the halakhic perspective on multiple employment, unionization, strikes, quitting, and paying workers on time.
Click here to view the accompanying source sheet. 
This audio was originally captured from Zoom on 03/09/2022 as part of Drisha's Spring Zman. 

Navigating the Employer-Employee Relationship (2/6) with Rabbi Jonathan Ziring

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Labour & Rest" 
As work has moved remote for many, and others are hesitant to return to their jobs for a variety of reasons, the world is rethinking what it means to be an employer or employee. In this series, we will explore a number of topics that address the nature of the employer-employee relationship, highlighting the rights and responsibilities of both sides. Among others, we will address the halakhic perspective on multiple employment, unionization, strikes, quitting, and paying workers on time.
Click here to view the accompanying source sheet. 
This audio was originally captured from Zoom on 03/02/2022 as part of Drisha's Spring Zman. 

Navigating the Employer-Employee Relationship (1/6) with Rabbi Jonathan Ziring

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Labour & Rest" 
As work has moved remote for many, and others are hesitant to return to their jobs for a variety of reasons, the world is rethinking what it means to be an employer or employee. In this series, we will explore a number of topics that address the nature of the employer-employee relationship, highlighting the rights and responsibilities of both sides. Among others, we will address the halakhic perspective on multiple employment, unionization, strikes, quitting, and paying workers on time.
Click here to view the accompanying source sheet. 
This audio was originally captured from Zoom on 02/23/2022 as part of Drisha's Spring Zman. 

The 21st Century Work/Shabbat Balance (4/4) with Rabbanit Leah Sarna and Rabbanit Sara Wolkenfeld

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Labour & Rest"
This course explores the intersection of work and melakhah (forbidden Shabbat actions) in our non-agrarian, globalized, work-from-anywhere economy. The first three meetings of the course will introduce participants to under-studied areas of Hilchot Shabbat that are highly resonant to work today: what kinds of reading material are allowed on Shabbat? What kinds of list-making or tracking is allowed? In a globalized economy, how do timezones affect the work I can do on Friday or Saturday night? The last class will turn to a more conceptual framework of Melakha and ask: when making salad seems more Halakhically fraught than writing an email, how do we think about the fact that Halakha and communal practice seems to allow for one and not the other?
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This audio was originally captured from Zoom on 02/28/2022 as part of Drisha's Spring Zman. 

The 21st Century Work/Shabbat Balance (3/4) with Rabbanit Leah Sarna and Rabbanit Sara Wolkenfeld

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Labour & Rest"
This course explores the intersection of work and melakhah (forbidden Shabbat actions) in our non-agrarian, globalized, work-from-anywhere economy. The first three meetings of the course will introduce participants to under-studied areas of Hilchot Shabbat that are highly resonant to work today: what kinds of reading material are allowed on Shabbat? What kinds of list-making or tracking is allowed? In a globalized economy, how do timezones affect the work I can do on Friday or Saturday night? The last class will turn to a more conceptual framework of Melakha and ask: when making salad seems more Halakhically fraught than writing an email, how do we think about the fact that Halakha and communal practice seems to allow for one and not the other?
Click here to view the accompanying source sheet. 
This audio was originally captured from Zoom on 02/14/2022 as part of Drisha's Spring Zman. 

The 21st Century Work/Shabbat Balance (2/4) with Rabbanit Leah Sarna and Rabbanit Sara Wolkenfeld

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Labour & Rest"
This course explores the intersection of work and melakhah (forbidden Shabbat actions) in our non-agrarian, globalized, work-from-anywhere economy. The first three meetings of the course will introduce participants to under-studied areas of Hilchot Shabbat that are highly resonant to work today: what kinds of reading material are allowed on Shabbat? What kinds of list-making or tracking is allowed? In a globalized economy, how do timezones affect the work I can do on Friday or Saturday night? The last class will turn to a more conceptual framework of Melakha and ask: when making salad seems more Halakhically fraught than writing an email, how do we think about the fact that Halakha and communal practice seems to allow for one and not the other?
Click here to view the accompanying source sheet. 
This audio was originally captured from Zoom on 02/14/2022 as part of Drisha's Spring Zman.