Yemei Iyun On Bible and Jewish Thought SUNDAY, JUNE 23, 2019

Torah Nevi’im Ketuvim General Topics in Tanakh

9:30–10:40 Registration, Introduction & Opening Keynote Shiur delivered by Nathaniel Helfgot on the occassion of the Tenth Yahrtzeit of Riva Koschitsky Z”L

10:50–11:50 1 Androgynous Myth: 2 929 at the Yemei Iyun: 3 The Beloved Who Became 4 Tanakh and Superstition: The Creation of Adam Shmuel I Chapter 14: the Widow: Between Debates Within Traditional and Eve in Peshat and Shaul and Jonathan Shir Hashirim and Eikhah Commentaries the Midrashic Tradition Tackle the Philistines (Hebrew) Hayyim Angel Tzvi Sinensky Adam Mintz Orit Avnery

12:00–1:00 5 Will the Real Please 6 Between Saul and David: A 7 Protecting the Widow: Legal 8 Towards a Definition of Stand Up: The Sabbath in Cave, A Spear, A Cloak and Institutions in Megillat Ruth Tefillah the Two Versions of the A Jug (Hebrew) Aseret Hadibrot Yael Landman Wermuth Shalom Holtz Orit Avnery

LUNCH AND MINCHA 1:00 – 2:15 PM

2:20–3:20 9 The Creation of the World 10 Shemesh Be-Givon Dom: 11 Eikhah 3 and the Court of 12 Morality of the Torah and and the Status of the Human Unraveling a Biblical Riddle Law Contemporary Morality Being (Hebrew) Yitzchak Etshalom Shalom Holtz Hayyim Angel Yonatan Grossman

3:30–4:25 13 The Mishkan: A ‘Mini Mt. 14 Do the Prophets Have Free 15 Berah Dodi: The Conclusion 16 On Feminine Depictions of Sinai’ or a ‘Kosher Golden Will? of Shir Ha-Shirim (Hebrew) God in Tanakh Calf’ Dan Margulies Yonatan Grossman Tzvi Sinensky Menachem Leibtag

4:35–5:30 17 Sefer Bemidbar: 39 Years of 18 Locust, Fire, “Anakh,” Fruit: 19 The Lion, the Pit and the 20 How to Teach and Living Dangerously Unriddling Amos’ Visions Wardrobe: Daniel, Joseph, Understand Ma’amad Esther and the Struggles of Har Sinai (The Cut-Outs Daniel Reifman Yael Landman Wermuth Being a Diaspora Jew Method)

Stuart Halpern Menachem Leibtag

Yemei Iyun On Bible and Jewish Thought MONDAY, JUNE 24, 2019

Torah Nevi’im Ketuvim Free Will & Moral Responsibility in Jewish Thought

9:00–9:30 Registration & Introduction

9:30–10:30 21 Rape and Culture: Dinah, 22 Yiftach: What Was He 23 Praying and Learning About 24 Just What IS Free Will Devarim, Hazal, and Us Thinking? Prayer: the “Ashrei”-Psalm Exactly? Two Medieval 145 Jewish Perspectives Haggai Resnikoff Aviad Bodner Hayyim Angel Daniel Rynhold

10:45–11:45 25 Birkat Kohanim: A Blessing 26 Is God Playing Favorites? 27 Groundhog Day, Megillat 28 My DNA Made Me Do It — of Biblical Proportions Was King David Really Ruth, and Nighttime Can Halakhah Recognize Better Than King Saul? Seduction Scenes in Tanakh Claims of Psychological Dovi Nadel Compulsion? Menachem Leibtag Stuart Halpern Aryeh Klapper

29 Drama in the Midbar- 30 “Grapes of Wrath in 31 Whose House? An Analysis 32 Did God Know Last Week 12:00–1:00 Moshe’s Ultimatum at Yeshayahu 63 – Why of Mizmor Shir Hanukat That You Were Going To Kivrot Ha-Taava the Anger?” Habayit Le-David Be in This Class Today?

Chaim Marder Leeor Gottlieb Yitzchak Etshalom Daniel Rynhold

LUNCH AND MINCHA 1:00 – 2:15 PM

2:15–3:15 33 Manna from Heaven and 34 Loyal Sidekick?: The Trial 35 Dear God...or Lord...or 36 Anatomy of an Idea: Rabbi Revelation at Sinai (Hebrew) of Yoav Master...? How We Address Eliyahu Dessler’s “Point of the Almighty in Tehillim Free Will” Yonatan Grossman Miriam Gedwiser Leeor Gottlieb Josh Rosenfeld

3:30–4:30 37 Yehuda, Tamar and 38 Did David Capture 39 The Religious Revival in 40 Did Mosheh Rabbeinu Bamidbar Ch. 5 Jerusalem? (Hebrew) Nehemiah Chapters 8-10 Have Free Will after Sinai? and Other Problems of Yitzchak Etshalom Yonatan Grossman Hayyim Angel Faith and Freedom.

Aryeh Klapper

Yemei Iyun at SAR High School Shiurim Choices Sunday, June 23 – Monday, June 24, 2019 Please indicate your choice for each time slot using the number of the shiur from the grid above. If we 20–21, Sivan 5779 are unable to accommodate your choice in any Thanks to a generous donation, we have discounted the cost of this given time slot, we will contact you. year’s Yemei Iyun to encourage more people to attend and participate in the learning. EARLY BIRD FEE Educators and Students: $40 per day SUNDAY, JUNE 23 MONDAY, JUNE 24 Young Leadership (Under 35): $50 per day TIME SHIUR # TIME SHIUR # All Others: $65 per day 10:50–11:50 9:30–10:30 FEE All after Friday, June 14: $75 per day for all 12:00–1:00 10:45–11:45 MATERIALS 2:20–3:20 12:00–1:00 • You will receive a printout with your personal program on the day of conference. 3:30–4:25 2:15–3:15 • Please bring a full Tanakh to all sessions. 4:35–5:30 3:30–4:30 For more information: Call 212.666.0036 or visit www.yctorah.org. Checks should be made payable and sent to: Please print: YCT RABBINICAL SCHOOL Yemei Iyun Registration 3700 Henry Hudson Parkway, Second Floor NAME Riverdale, NY 10463 ADDRESS

Registration deadline for early bird discount is TELEPHONE NUMBER Thursday, June 14, 2019. • No registration can be processed without payment. E-MAIL ADDRESS • On-site registration will be available on a first come, first served basis with access available only to classes that have available space. SCHOOL (IF APPLICABLE) FACULTY

Dr. Orit Avnery, Shalom Hartman Institute/ Shalem College Rabbi Dov Linzer, YCT Rabbinical School

Rabbi Hayyim Angel, Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals Rabbi Dan Margulies (YCT ’17), The Riverdale

Rabbi Aviad Bodner (YCT ’16), Stanton Street / Rabbi Chaim Marder, Hebrew Institute of White Plains/ Ramaz Upper School YCT Rabbinical School

Rabbi Yitzchak Etshalom, YULA High School Rabbi Adam Mintz, 929 Tanakh/Yeshivat

Miriam Gedwiser, Ramaz Upper School/Drisha Institute for Rabbi Dovi Nadel, SAR High School/National Bible Contest Jewish Education Rabbi Daniel Reifman, Pardes Institute for Jewish Studies/ Dr. Leeor Gottlieb, Bar Ilan University Drisha Institute for Jewish Education

Dr. Yonatan Grossman, Bar Ilan University/Michlelet Herzog Rabbi Haggai Resnikoff (YCT ’14), YCT Rabbinical School

Rabbi Dr. Stuart Halpern, University Rabbi Josh Rosenfeld, Lincoln Square Synagogue/

Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot, YCT Rabbinical School/SAR High School Day School

Dr. Shalom Holtz, Dr. Daniel Rynhold, Yeshiva University

Rabbi Aryeh Klapper, Center For Modern Torah Leadership Rabbi Tzvi Sinensky, Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School

Rabbi Menachem Leibtag, Tanach Sudy Center Dr. Yael Landman Wermuth, Brooklyn College

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Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School in partnership with May her memory be a blessing to her family, the Jewish Beit Morasha of Jerusalem, Center for Modern Torah Leadership, people and the entire world. On behalf of Rabbi Dov Linzer, Drisha Institute for Jewish Education, Institute for Jewish Ideas President and Rosh HaYeshiva of YCT Rabbinical School, and Ideals, Midreshet Ein HaNatziv, Midreshet Lindenbaum, and Rabbi , Founding President, I extend to you a National Bible Contest, SAR High School, Torah in Motion, personal invitation to join us on June 23–24, 2019 for this Yeshivat Maale Gilboa, Yeshivat Maharat and the 929 Tanakh unique opportunity to learn and study with some of the most program, is proud to invite as all lovers of serious Tanakh and fascinating teachers and scholars in the world. Machshava study to the seventeenth annual Yemei Iyun on Bible and Jewish Thought. Leading scholars and educators in the fields With best wishes, of Bible, Exegesis, and Jewish Thought from the United States vumnvu vru,v ,frcc and Israel will be participating in this conference. The classes and workshops will focus on most of the Biblical books studied in the day school system throughout the country. Participants will be able to choose classes from four tracks, each focusing on a different book of the Bible or topic of Jewish thought. Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot We have once again arranged for online registration. Visit YCT’s Faculty, Department of Bible and Jewish Thought website at www.yctorah.org in May to register. Alternatively, and Convener of Yemei Iyun you may complete the enclosed registration form. The annual Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School Yemei Iyun are generously sponsored in memory of Riva Koschitzky z”l by Tamar and Eric Goldstein. This year marks the 10th yahrtzeit of her untimely passing.

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Beit Morasha of Jerusalem, Center for Modern Torah Leadership, Drisha Institute for Jewish Education, Institute for Yemei Iyun Jewish Ideas and Ideals, Midreshet Ein HaNatziv, Midreshet Lindenbaum, National Bible Contest, SAR High School, Torah in Motion, Yeshivat Maale Gilboa, Yeshivat Maharat, and 929 On Bible Tanakh program. In Memory of Riva Koschitzky z”l and Jewish Dedicated by Tamar and Eric Goldstein Sunday, June 23 – Monday, June 24, 2019 Thought 20-21 Sivan, 5779 SAR High School 503 West 259 Street Riverdale, NY 10471