YCT RABBINICAL SCHOOL PRESENTS YEMEI IYUNONLINE

ON BIBLE AND JEWISH THOUGHT

SPONSORED BY: Rabbinical School

IN COOPERATION WITH: Center for Modern Torah Leadership, Drisha Institute for Jewish Education, Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals, 929 Tanach Program, National Bible Contest, Torah in Motion, Yeshivat Maaleh Gilboa, , Ohr Torah Stone, and PORAT.

IN MEMORY OF: Riva Koschitzky z”l Dedicated by Tamar and Eric Goldstein

JOIN US ON ZOOM

Sunday, August 29 – Monday, August 30, 2021 21 – 22 Elul 5781

Cost: $25 Register today: yctorah.org/iyun eshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School This year, though we are, thank God, emerging is proud to invite as all lovers of serious from the throes of the pandemic, in light of the Y Tanakh and Mahshavah study to the continued health and logistical challenges, the 19th annual Yemei Iyun on Bible and Jewish entire program will be held once more, online, Thought. We are also proud to be joined by in a virtual format. There is a minimal charge the Center for Modern Torah Leadership, the for registration that covers all shiurim for both Drisha Institute for Jewish Education, Institute days. The annual Yemei Iyun are generously for Jewish Ideas and Ideals, National Bible sponsored in memory of Riva Koschitzky z”l by Contest, Torah in Motion, Yeshivat Maale Gilboa, Tamar and Eric Goldstein. On behalf of Maharat, 929 Tanakh program, Ohr Torah Stone Dov Linzer, President and Rosh HaYeshiva of and PORAT who are co-sponsors of the event. YCT Rabbinical School, and Rabbi Avi Weiss, Leading scholars and educators in the fields of Founding President, I extend to you a personal Bible, Exegesis, and Jewish Thought from the invitation to join us on August 29–30, 2021 United States and will be participating in for this unique opportunity to learn and study this conference. This year, we are holding the with some of the most fascinating teachers and Yemei Iyun in the month of Elul, right before scholars in the world. Rosh Hashana and on the cusp of a Shemitah (Sabbatical) year in Israel. Classes will focus on With best wishes, themes related to Tanakh, the Yamim Noraim and Shemitah. Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot Convener, YCT Yemei Iyun

FACULTY

Rabbi Hayyim Angel, Institute for Jewish Ideas Rabbi Dr. Erin Leib-Smokler, Maharat and Ideals Rabbi Menachem Leibtag, Tanach Study Center Rabba Wendy Amsellem, Maharat Rabbi Dov Linzer, YCT Rabbinical School Rabbi Amnon Bazak, Yeshivat Har Etzion Rabbi Dr. Hillel Mali, Michlelet Herzog Rabbi Yaakov Beasely, Yeshivat Hesder Lev Rabbi Dovi Nadel, SAR High School/National HaTorah Bible Contest Rabbi Yonah Berman, YCT Rabbinical School Rabbi Ilay Ofran, YCT Rabbinical School/ Rabbi Dr. Yoel Bin Nun, Michlelet Herzog K’vutzat Yavneh Rabbi Yitzchak Blau, Yeshivat Orayta Rabbi Haggai Resnikoff,YCT Rabbinical School Rabbi Yitzchak Etshalom, Shalhevet High Dr. Biti Roi, Bar Ilan University/Shalom Hartman School/YULA Institute Rabbi Jeffrey Fox, Maharat Rabbanit Yael Shimoni, Yeshivat Drisha Rabbi Aharon Frazer, Independent Scholar Dr. Elana Stein Hain, Shalom Hartman Institute Dr. Tova Ganzel, Bar Ilan University of North America Rabbi Dr. Zvi Grumet, Lookstein Center for Ira Tokayer, PhD Candidate, Jewish Theological Jewish Education/Yeshivat Eretz Ha-Tzvi Seminary Dr. Shalom Holtz, University Rabbi Avi Weiss, YCT Rabbinical School/ Maharat Dr. Tammy Jacobowitz, SAR High School Dr. Yael Ziegler, Michlelet Herzog Judy Klitsner, Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies SUNDAY, AUGUST 29, 2021

TORAH NEVEEIM YAMIM NORAIM

9:30 AM EASTERN • INTRODUCTION AND WELCOME

9:45 – 10:45 AM Intent and Accident: “And His Lower Train The Akeda’s Scream EASTERN What Made Yehuda’s Filled the Temple” and Other Thundering Speech So Compelling? Isaiah 6 and the Origins Biblical Silences Zvi Grumet of Jewish Mysticism Judy Klitsner (Hebrew) Hillel Mali

10:55 – 11:55 AM Yosef’s Agricultural Consolation or How Central is Kingship EASTERN Template of Egypt As Vengeance — What is to Rosh Hashanah? Model for Shemitah Nahum’s Real Message? Dov Linzer and Yovel Yaakov Beasley Aharon Frazer MORNING SESSION

12:05 – 1:00 PM What Came First: Elisha and the The Shofar: EASTERN Sefer Bereishit or Shunamit Woman Object and Meaning in Sefer Shemot? (Hebrew) Hasidic Thought Menachem Leibtag Amnon Bazak Biti Roi

7:00 – 8:00 PM Vayikra and Devarim: The Call Narratives and How Many Jewish New EASTERN Two Religious Models the Unity of Isaiah Years are There and Elana Stein Hain Ira Tokayer How Do We Know? Jeffrey Fox

8:05 – 9:00 PM Do You Have Only Ovadiah: Peshat Erev Yom Kippur EASTERN One Blessing? and Parshanut in the Aggadah Revisiting Yaacov’s Hayyim Angel Wendy Amsellem EVENING SESSION Theft of the Berakhot Yitzchak Etshalom

9:00 – 9:30 PM EASTERN • Machzor Moments: A Session of Preparation for the High Holidays Yonah Berman

CONTINUED ON FOLLOWING PAGE MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 2021

TORAH KETUVIM SHEMITAH

9:15 – 9:30 AM EASTERN • INTRODUCTION AND WELCOME

9:30 – 10:30 AM What’s So Terrible About Anguish and Anger: Shemitah or Shabbat EASTERN Avodah Zarah? Structure and Theology Ha-Aretz? Shemitah in a Menachem Leibtag in the Book of Eikha Non- Agrarian Society Yael Ziegler (Hebrew) Yoel Bin Nun

10:30 – 11:30 AM The Relationship and Insights Into Shivat Shemitah: Between Rav EASTERN Struggle Between Tziyon: The Return to Kook and the Hazon Ish Yaacov and Esau Zion From Antiquity (Hebrew) Yitzchak Blau till Today Ilay Ofran Tova Ganzel

MORNING SESSION 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM “Like the Form of the Did They Read From the Shemitah or Shnat EASTERN Sanctuary and the Torah Before Ezra? Shabbaton? Screen of Testimony— (Hebrew) When Torah So Was the Visage Yoel Bin Nun Values Collide of the Kohen:” Dov Linzer On the Mishkan and the Clothing of the Kohen Yael Shimoni

7:00 – 8:00 PM Nation As Family Encountering Tehillim Hassidic Perspectives EASTERN in the Torah Through God’s World: on Shemitah Avi Weiss Insight Into Tehillim Erin Leib Smokler Through A Camera’s Lens Dovi Nadel

8:10 – 9:00 PM The Legacy of Amalek: Metaphors of Sin and Shemitah and EASTERN Genocide, Vikings, Forgiveness in Tehillim Sefer Bereishit and the Climate 130: Shir HaMa’alot Tammy Jacobowitz

EVENING SESSION Haggai Resnikoff MiMa’amakim Shalom Holtz

9:00 – 9:30 PM EASTERN • SPECIAL PROGRAM LAUNCHING YCT’S COMMUNITY SHEMITAH BEIT MIDRASH

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