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. This is the second in a series of three classes given [...]
Posts Tagged ‘bereishit’
Melilah Hellner-Eshed: Ways of remembering Sinai – Part 2
Posted in Holidays/Festivals, Videos, israel, jewish, lectures, torah, חגים, לימוד, tagged bereishit, genesis, jewish, Jewish-people, moses, mysticism, revelation, sinai, torah on May 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Learning about Abraham, the first Jew
Posted in History, israel, torah, tagged abraham, bereishit, curriculum, genesis, israel, tanakh, Teaching, torah on November 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From the opening of Hartman Institute Master Teacher, Prof. Noam Zion and Steve Israel’s curriculum, “The First Jew – A Journey Begun with a Fateful Choice“:
Abraham is rightly designated, according to the Bible, as “the pillar of the world”: “The term `rock’ was used figuratively to designate the root and principle of every thing. It [...]
Donniel Hartman lecture on Genesis 18 and 22 (Pt. 2 of 2)
Posted in Donniel Hartman, Education, Videos, israel, torah, tagged abraham, bereishit, bible, genesis, Isaac, judaism, talmud, torah on November 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Rabbi Dr. Donniel Hartman, Co-Director, Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem, Israel, talks about the different types of Jews in history and today as defined by the different approaches in Chapters 18 and 22 in the Book of Breishit, Genesis, in the Bible, in this video lecture (Part 2 of 2) for participants of the Christian Leadership [...]
Donniel Hartman: Foundations of the Ethical and Moral in Judaism (Pt. 1 of 2)
Posted in Donniel Hartman, Education, History, Videos, torah, tagged abraham, bereishit, bible, ethics, genesis, Isaac, jewish, judaism, monotheism, torah on October 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Rabbi Dr. Donniel Hartman, Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem, Israel, talks about, “Who Determines the Good,” Abraham, Isaac, Genesis, Bereishit and different types of Jews and different views of Judaism stemming from Genesis 18 and 22 with Christian clerics from the Hartman Institute’s Christian Leadership Initiative.
Noam Zion: Sarah, Hagar and Abraham
Posted in History, Videos, israel, torah, tagged abraham, bereishit, bible, genesis, hagar, jewish, judaism, lech-lecha, sarah, torah on October 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Noam Zion, Director, Tichom Program for North American Jewish Educators, Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem, Israel, delivers a scorching lecture about the limitations and failings of the Jewish patriarch Abraham (Avraham) and the two women in his life, Sarah and Hagar to members of the Hartman Institute’s Lay Leadership Program in Jerusalem during Summer 2008


