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Summer Session 1 Schedule Weekly Schedule. Pardes Summer Program – July 7-25, 2019 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday 8:45 - 11:15 am The Scope of Talmudic Texts: Prayer, Marriage, Violence - Mishna/Talmud (Intro) – Dena Freundlich Jews and Gentiles: Navigating Identity, Power and Culture (Tractate Avoda Zara) – Talmud (Intro) – Joshua Weisberg Darkhei Shalom- Ways of Peace (Talmud Tractate Gittin) - Talmud (Intro +) – Rahel Berkovits Neighbors- a Talmudic Perspective on Building Community (Bava Batra) – Talmud (Intermediate) - Leah Rosenthal What We Say and How We Say It (Sotah) - Talmud (Advanced) – Zvi Hirschfield 11:45 am - 1:15 pm Sexuality and Sanctity: Towards a Jewish Sexual Ethic – Rahel Berkovits • Sexuality & Sanctity Prophecy and the Roots of Jewish Spirituality – Mike Feuer GUEST • Prophecy. Spirituality Permitted and Prohibited: Gender & Halakhic Judaism - Nechama Goldman Barash • Gender & Halakha Shabbat 101 Boot Camp: Survey of Laws of Shabbat - Zvi Hirschfield SPEAKERS • Shabbat 101 Animals in the Bible - Howard Markose • Biblical Animals 1:15 - 1:30 pm Optional Mehitza Mincha/Egalitarian Mincha 1:15 - 2:30 pm L U N C H L U N C H 2:30 - 5 pm Afternoon Classes (Details below) Tours (until 8 pm) Afternoon Classes (Details below) Afternoon Classes 2:30 - 5 pm Sunday / Wednesday 2:30 - 5 pm Monday / Thursday Jewish Wisdom and Eternal Human Dilemmas Rav Kook: Song of the Soul William Friedman Mike Feuer A Contemporary Israel Workshop Introduction to Midrash: Listening closely to the Text Alex Israel & Jamie Salter Nechama Goldman Barash Afternoon Classes Morally Troubling Biblical Texts An Upbeat Approach to Understanding the Siddur (Prayer Book) Marty Lockshin Howard Markose The Big Six: Major Questions in Jewish Philosophy Insiders and Outsiders: A rigorous and reflective reading of the Elliott Malamet Book of Ruth Tova Leah Nachmani Bnei Machshava Tova: Conscious Community: A Guide to Inner Spiritual Work Food and Judaism. Ethics and Laws Yiscah Smith Daniel Shibley Evening Extras * 5:15-6:45 – Scribal Arts. Dov Laimon Mon/Wed * Trope – Howard Markose Mon/Wed Weekly Schedule. Pardes Summer Program – July 7-25, 2019 8:45-11:15 am Morning Intensives specific obligations and parameters. The second week, we will delve into passages from Tractate Kiddushin (Marriage) that deal with questions of agency – Can you send an agent to perform a mitzvah for you? To marry Talmud Class Levels: someone for you? Who will be held responsible if you hire a hit man to Mishna/Talmud Intro – If you cannot read Hebrew and/or if you have no carry out a murder? In the final week, we will study sections from Bava substantial experience with Rabbinic texts, this is the class for you. It will provide a broad and robust introduction to the world of the Oral Law and Kama that deal with our responsibility when we injure someone else, will study texts from Mishna, and introduce you to Talmudic thinking. including such questions as: How does one put a price tag on an arm or Talmud Intro This class assumes that you can read Hebrew script, that on humiliation? you know at least 20 words in Hebrew but have never really studied Talmud. This class will provide an opportunity to begin reading the Talmud Intro Talmud in the original Aramaic. Talmud Intermediate – This class assumes that you have taken Talmud Joshua Weisberg classes but cannot independently read a Talmudic text fluently. Jews and Gentiles: Navigating Identity, Power and Culture (Tractate Talmud Advanced – This class assumes at lest one year of experience Avoda Zara) with Talmud and the ability to read Rashi script. We will also study Like all tractates in the Talmud, Avodah Zarah, which means “foreign relevant medieval commentaries as needed. worship” in Hebrew, asks both philosophical and practical questions: Are differences between Jews and gentiles essential? Are they religious? Ethnic? Historical? Are Jews different by design? By accident? Why Mishna/Talmud Intro sustain those differences? What is at risk if we integrate? What is at risk Dena Freundlich if we don’t? What are Jews’ responsibilities to non-Jews? What lies at The Scope of Talmudic Texts: Prayer, Marriage, Violence the heart of humanity’s relationship with God, and what role does law This class is designed to provide an introductory overview of how the play in that relationship? Mishna and Gemara work and think - what types of issues they address, The Talmud is an ancient Hebrew and Aramaic text, composed of their general style of argumentation and analysis, and their relationship conversations, stories and laws. Its discussions adhere to complex rules to the Biblical text, to each other, and to the later commentators. Each of legal reasoning. Talmudic arguments flow along a brisk stream of week, we will explore a different Order (there are 6 Orders of Mishna and consciousness and the Rabbis’ narrative style can confuse the most Gemara altogether) so as to appreciate the scope of these classic texts. assiduous student. To exacerbate matters, as thoughtful and creative as The first week, we will learn selections from Tractate Brachot (Blessings) the ancient rabbis were, they taught from within an ancient cultural that deal with the Rabbinic approach to prayer, in particular the tension context. Their teachings don’t fit easily into our intellectual and moral between prayer as a personal cry to God vs. a religious ritual with categories. Talmud study requires patience, persistence, and a Weekly Schedule. Pardes Summer Program – July 7-25, 2019 willingness to suspend judgment. Intermediate Talmud Leah Rosenthal Rahel Berkovits Neighbours- a Talmudic Perspective on Building Community: Tractate Bava Batra Darkhei Shalom- Ways of Peace: Talmud Tractate Gittin In this class we will study a selection of Talmudic passages from the first This class is designed to get you reading Talmud! The course will focus and second chapters of tractate Bava Batra. As we focus on developing on basic skills—understanding the structure of the Talmudic page and and advancing our Talmudic reading skills and our appreciation of the passage, and how to follow its complex arguments, acquiring key terms nature and inner structures of the Talmudic text, we will also be following and basic vocabulary, and gaining a sense of how to think about a page the Talmud's discussion of issues that are still of great relevance today. of Talmud. Students will also encounter the literary power of the Outlining the parameters of the reciprocal obligations between the Talmud and will have the opportunity to examine and discuss a number individual and the community, we will follow ancient discussions of existential and halakhic questions that preoccupied the Sages from regarding matters such as privacy, security, charity and public education, 0-600 CE and yet are still relevant to today. Such as How important is it which concern us no less in our contemporary societies than they did in to compromise the letter of the law for the sake of peace among the world of the Rabbis of the Mishna and Talmud. people? Whom do the Rabbis consider to be part of an average Jew’s concentric Advanced Talmud community? Which areas in life do the Rabbis feel cause the most Zvi Hirschfield fighting and unrest in communities? (Don’t be surprised when the What We Say and How We Say it Synagogue tops the list!) How was the Torah given? In-depth attention We will be learning the 7th chapter of Tractate Sota which addresses a will be paid- through critical analysis of language and structure- to the range of Speech related Mitzvot and whether they must be performed overarching meta-halahkic concepts and theological and philosophical in Hebrew. messages the Sages are trying to convey in their discussions. This class assumes at least one year of experience with Talmud and the ability to read Rashi script. We will also study relevant Medieval commentaries as needed. Weekly Schedule Pardes Summer Program – July 7-25, 2019 11:45am – 1:15pm Mid-morning Classes binary structure distinguishing between the sexes emerged and how it continues to have influence today in public spaces like synagogue and Sexuality and Sanctity: Towards a Jewish Sexual Ethic private s pac e s like divorce ceremonies. We will talk about the Rahel Berkovits different denominations' responses to feminism including prayer What does Judaism have to say about issues surrounding sexuality? What services and ordination. Finally, we will discuss issues around dress and values and challenges can the rabbinic texts impart for us living with the sexuality, both with regard to heterosexual and same sex relationships. modern sexual norms of the twenty first century? In this class we will While it will be source based, it is a course that will look at a lot of examine, analyze and openly discuss rabbinic texts from the Torah and relevant contemporary issues and will encourage open discussion. Talmud through to the modern responsa and different Jewish denominational responses on topics connected to sexual conduct such as Introduction and Survey of the Laws of Shabbat pleasure, consent, marital sex, gay sex, premarital/non-marital sex, and Zvi Hirschfield masturbation. The classroom aims to be a safe space for students of We will be learning about some of the basic positive and negative diverse backgrounds, practices, genders and orientations. commandments of Shabbat, tracing their development from the Talmud through contemporary Halakhic decision makers. Sources will Prophecy and the roots of Jewish Spirituality be available in English and Hebrew. No prior background is required Mike Feuer for this class. Before there were rabbis there were prophets, and even once the age of prophecy ended their path of Divine service did not disappear. Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My! Analyzing the Strategic This class will be an exploration of the prophetic tradition in Jewish Placement of Animals in the Bible texts ranging from the Bible to the 20th century.
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