Hartman Institute ads for Hebrew book catalogue on Haaretz, The Marker

Hartman Institute is running cool ads on the Hebrew websites of Haaretz and The Marker to draw mainstream Israelis into the fascinating world of Jewish thought available in the books the Institute has published in Hebrew on subjects including Herzl, the 1940s “neo-Caananite” movement in Israel, “the Rav,” God’s “personhood” and more.

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Shanah tovah from Shalom Hartman Institute

Post-holiday update
This came in too late for responding to over the חג – I really like the sentiments:
Wishing you:

1 year of good health
12 months of abundant parnassah (livelihood)
365 days of brachot (blessings)
8,760 hours of happiness and shalom ba’it (peaceful relationships)
525,600 minutes of hatzlacha (success)
31,536,000 seconds of menuchot ha das (tranquility and settledness)

in the coming year!
שנה [...]

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Donniel Hartman: On Rosh Hashana 5769 rethink who you are

Rabbi Dr. Donniel Hartman, Co-Director of the Shalom Hartman Institute, talks about the notion that the human life needs to embody a dimension of reflectiveness, a dimension of review, an aspect of rethinking who you are, and what you have achieved in your life, so that you never see who you are in [...]

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Institute web efforts noted on Read/Write Web

ReadWriteWeb is a blog that provides Web Technology news, reviews and analysis. It began publishing on April 20, 2003, and is now one of the most widely read and respected blogs in the world. It has nearly 240,000 RSS and email subscribers. Its founder is Richard MacManus, who started out as the classic “blogger in [...]

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New Years greetings, thoughts from Hartman Institute

A special content section featuring personal, academic, and practical information about the upcoming month of holidays – from Rosh Hashana to Hoshana Raba - is now on the Shalom Hartman Institute website. We are offering video, essays, articles, educational material and an entire course syllabus for you.
Items include:

Reflections on the existential rhythms of Rosh Hashanah and [...]

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קניית ספרים בעברית ממכון הרטמן

ספר חדש על הרצל ממכון שלום הרטמן

האם רצית לקנות ספרים ממכון הרטמן?
מעכשיו קנה וקרא ישירות מהוצאת המכון ובאופן מאובטח.
 .לחץ כאן
ספרים מאת הרב פרופ. דוד הרטמן, פרופ. משה הלברטל, אבי שגיא ואוד מהפרופסורים ממכון הרטמן. וגם במחירים טובים. רק בארץ.
גם עכשיו: קניית חוברות למידה יהדות ואזרחות לבתי”ס ממלכתיים

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Melilah Hellner-Eshed: Ways of remembering Sinai

Shalom Hartman Institute Fellow and Scholar Melilah Hellner-Eshed talks about how to remember the event at Sinai in which the Jewish people received the Torah, and what is Jewish memory, the how the transmission of the collective Jewish memory was through ritual and reciting

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YouTube notes Hartman Institute channel as prizewinner

(This video of an interview with Hartman Institute Senior Fellow Moshe Halbertal is our most-watched YouTube video)
We don’t generally toot our own horns, but I was surprised and pleased to find some little award ribbons attached to our YouTube channel page when I clicked on it today. According to the ribbons, [...]

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Hartman Institute podcasts now available

In response to many requests, we’ve begun creating podcasts of Hartman Institute lectures and other presentations. The first three podcasts are from last winter’s Lindenbaum-Pomrenze lecture series by Rabbi Prof. David Hartman. Find the podcasts now by clicking here. If you want to subscribe to the new podcasts through iTunes, so that your iTunes and [...]

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בית-מדרש ללימוד כתביו של אברהם יהושע השל

וקול דממה דקה ישמע”?– בית-מדרש ללימוד כתביו של אברהם יהושע השל
אברהם יהושע השל הוא מגדולי התיאולוגים של המאה העשרים. הגותו היא שילוב נדיר של פואטיקה ופילוסופיה, מודרנה והלכה, לימוד ומעשה. התשובות שנתן השל לשאלות הקיומיות שהעסיקו אותו, על היחסים בין אדם לאל ועל הקשר שבין אדם לחברו בעלות רלבנטיות רבה לימינו אלה ובעלות חיות כבעבר. [...]

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