Thank you all for joining us on Zoom for our 19th annual Yemei Iyun. The recordings can be accessed below.
Introduction: 19th Annual Yemei Iyun on Bible & Jewish Thought
Nation As Family in the Torah
The Shofar: Object and Meaning in Hasidic Thought
Encountering Tehillim through God's World: Insight into Tehillim through a Camera's Lens
The Call Narratives and the Unity of Isaiah
Ovadiah: Peshat and Parshanut
Hassidic Perspectives on Shemitah
Vayikra and Devarim: Two Religious Models
"And His Lower Train Filled the Temple": Isaiah 6 & Origins of Jewish Mysticism (Hebrew-Language)
Shemitah: Between Rav Kook and the Hazon Ish (Hebrew-Language Session)
Shemitah or Shabbaton? When Torah Values Collide
The Akeda's Scream and Other Thundering Biblical Silences
How Central is Kingship to Rosh HaShanah?
Shemitah and Sefer Bereishit
How Many Jewish New Years Are There, and How Do We Know?
Erev Yom Kippur in the Aggadah
Anguish and Anger: Structure and Theology in the Book of Eikha
Insights into Shivat Tziyon: The Return to Zion from Antiquity till Today
Consolation or Vengeance--What is Nahum's Real Message?
Elisha and the Shunamit Woman (Hebrew-Language Session)
"Like the Form of the Sanctuary and the Screen of Testimony--So Was the Visage of the Kohen."
The Legacy of Amalek: Genocide, Vikings, and the Climate
Do You Only Have One Blessing? Revisiting Yaakov's Theft of the Berakhot
The Relationship and Struggle Between Yaakov and Esau
Intent and Accident: What Made Yehuda's Speech So Compelling?
What Came First: Sefer Bereishit or Sefer Shemot?
Metaphors of Sin and Forgiveness in Tehillim 130: Shir HaMa'alot MiMa'amakim
Did They Read from the Torah before Ezra? (Hebrew-Language Session)
Yosef's Agricultural Template of Egypt As Model for Shemitah and Yovel
Shemitah or Shabbat Ha-Aretz? Shemitah in a Non-Agrarian Society (Hebrew-Language Session)