The schedule for the Summer Beit Midrash public lectures, July 9-31, is as follows:
--All programs will
be at the Harvard Hillel unless otherwise noted--
52 Mt. Auburn St., Cambridge
Rabbi Robert Klapper, Program
Director and Lecturer
Mondays:
7:30 - 9:30pm - Tanakh Program for High School and
Post-Israel Women
July 9 - Rabbi Aryeh Klapper -
"Feminist Satire in Sefer Shoftim"
July 16 - Mrs. Deborah Klapper -
"The Kindest Cut of All"
July 23,30 - Topics and Instructors
TBA
Tuesdays:
1pm - Community Lunch and Learn
Focus: Labor Justice in Jewish Law
July 10, 17, 24 - at American
Jewish Congress, 126 High Street, Boston
Specific Topics
TBA
7:30 - 9:30pm - Community Beit Midrash Nights lectures by
Rabbi Aryeh Klapper
July 10 - At Congregation Ahavath
Torah, Lynn
Topic: “Crimes of Passion in Jewish Law”
Focus: Why ask Why? Divine and Human Motives in
Jewish Law
July 17 - At Congregation Kehillath
Israel, Brookline
Topic
1: “The Tree of Life and Death”
July 24 -
At Congregation Kehillath Israel, Brookline
Topic
2: “Does G-d Care about Our Motives?”
July 31 - At Congregation Kehillath
Israel, Brookline
Topic 3: “Do We Care about G-d's
Motives?”
Wednesdays:
July 25 – 4:00pm – Rabbi Joseph Polak
Topic: TBA
7:30 - 9:30 -
Community Beit Midrash Nights at the Chabad Center of Lexington, 9 Burlington
Street, Lexington
Focus: Three Talmudic Relationships
July 11 – “Beruriah and R. Meir:
Why Can't a Woman be More like a Man?”
July 18 – “Resh Lakish and R.
Yochanan”
July 25 – “Mosheh Rabbeinu and R.
Akiva”
Thursdays:
7:30 - 9:30pm - Tanakh Program for High School and
Post-Israel Women
Topics and
Instructors TBA
July 12 – 3:30pm – Prof. Chanina Ben Menachem
Topic:
“Halakhah L'Maaseh”
July 19 – 3:30pm – Rabbi Yona Reiss
Topic: TBA
Shabbat
July 21 – at Cong. Shaarei Tefillah, Newton
Note: SBM Fellows
will be available to prepare with community members during the allotted time
before each lecture. Source handouts will be available in Hebrew and English.
Monday
9:00 - 12:15
- Chavruta preparation for shiur
12:15 - 1:00
- Lunch
1:00 - 2:45 -
Shiur
3 - 6:15 -
Open Chavruta
6:15 -7:00 -
Supper
7:30 - 9:30 -
Open Chavruta
7:30 - 9:30 -
Tanakh Program for High School and Post-Israel Women
July 9 -
Rabbi Aryeh Klapper - "Feminist Satire in Sefer Shoftim"
July 16 - Mrs.
Deborah Klapper - "The Kindest Cut of All"
July 23,30 -
Topics and Instructors TBA
Tuesday
9:00 - 10:30
- Chavruta preparation for Shiur
10:30 - 11:20
- shiur
1pm -
Community Lunch and Learn
July 10, 17,
24 - at American Jewish Congress, 126 High Street, Boston
Labor Justice
in Jewish Law
Specific
Topics TBA
4 - 5:45 -
Open Chavruta
5:45 - 6:30 -
Supper
7:30 - 9:30 -
Community Beit Midrash Nights
July 10 - At
Congregation Ahavath Torah, Lynn
"Crimes
of Passion in Jewish Law"
July 17, 24,
31 - At Congregation Kehillath Israel, Brookline
Why ask Why?
Divine and Human Motives in Jewish Law
1. "The
Tree of Life and Death"
2. "Does
G-d Care about Our Motives?"
3. "Do
We Care about G-d's Motives?"
Wednesday
9:00 - 12:15
- Chavruta preparation for shiur
12:15 - 1:00
- Lunch
1:00 - 2:45 -
Shiur
3 - 6:15 -
Open Chavruta
Except Wed.
July 25 - 4pm - Rabbi Joseph Polak - Topic TBA
6:15 -7:00 -
Supper
7:30 - 9:30 - Community Beit Midrash Nights at the
Chabad Center of Lexington, 9 Burlington Street, Lexington
July 11, 18,
25
Three
Talmudic Relationships
1.
"Beruriah and R. Meir: Why Can't a Woman be More like a Man?"
2. "Resh
Lakish and R. Yochanan"
3.
"Mosheh Rabbeinu and R. Akiva"
Thursday
9:00 - 12:15
- Chavruta preparation for shiur
12:15 - 1:00
- Lunch
1:00 - 2:45 -
Shiur
3 - 6:15 -
Open Chavruta
Except : July
12, 3:30 pm. - Prof. Chanina Ben Menachem - "Halakhah
L'Maaseh"
July 19,
3:30pm - Rabbi Yonah Reiss - Topic TBA
6:15 -7:00 -
Supper
7:30 - 9:30 -
Open Chavruta
7:30 - 9:30 -
Talmud Program for High School and Post-Israel Women
July 12, 19,
26 - Topics and Instructors TBA
Friday
9 -11:45 -
Open Chavruta
11:45 - 12:15
- Sichah
Shabbat
July 21- At
Cong. Shaarei Tefillah, Newton