Between the spaces of legal discussion emerge a few consistent themes– how do we include more people into our community? How do we present sacred texts when language creates a barrier to comprehension and meaning? Who counts when we build community and how do preserve the holy space that invites the Divine to reside within? While the beginning of the tractate focuses on the reading of Megillat Esther, the focus of the holiday, the tractate also moves beyond the narrow confines of Purim to look at the overall laws around public Torah readings, public prayer and the sanctity of the synagogue. In this Pardes Daily Challenge, we are going to learn through mishnayot in all four chapters of the tractate Megillah in preparation for Purim. Whose in? An Exploration of Tractate Megillah Each of our ten classes will explore the ten chapters of this riveting story and evoke messages relevant to our lives and those of the Jewish people, in those days and in ours. This track will study the terror and the jubilation of the carnivalesque book of Esther. Why are we required to check for hametz? When, why and how should we destroy hametz? What is the relationship between hametz and rabbinic creativity? Come join us in learning these mishnayot to find out. The concept is presented on its own and not in relation to or corresponding to matzah. The first two chapters of Mishnah Tractate Pesahim focus on the essence of hametz. The “Mitzvah” of Hametz: Human Creativity, Ingenuity and Desire This awareness will allow us to not only approach the Seder experience in a more informed, inspired and indeed prepared way, but also to experience individual and personal spiritual redemption, as we celebrate the “time of our freedom.” These profound teachings will guide us as we move along the path to discover aspects of our true essence – the image of the Divine in Whom we have been created and Who continues to dwell within us. We will explore excerpts from Rav Kook’s deep and spiritually infused commentaries on the Passover Haggadah. Prepare to Experience Inner Freedom and Liberation This track was originally featured on our first Pardes Daily Passover Challenge in 2020.Ĭhallenge yourself to one of our new 3-week tracks to get into the Passover mindset! Yiscah Smith This track was originally featured on our first Pardes Daily Passover Challenge in 2020.ĭive into Exodus, the foundational text that serves as the basis of the holiday of Passover with Michael Hattin. Levi Cooper, answers along with other covid-related questions in his new short series, This Covid Life.Įxplore some of the major themes and texts from the Passover Haggadah with Meir Schweiger. What is the blessing one says when receiving the coronavirus vaccine? What if you have to get your vaccine on Shabbat? Does science win over Judaism in all matters related to the vaccine? These are very important halakhic questions that the Maggid of Melbourne, Rabbi Dr. After 10-15 minute podcasts a day, 5 days a week, for 3 weeks leading up to Passover, you will complete one of the following areas of study:įor our Passover Challenge, we are offering 3, 1-week mini-challenges! These tracks were featured Torah on Elmad that we didn’t want you to miss: Rabbi Dr. Passover, a holiday that recalls the transformative moment in biblical history when the Jewish people go from bondage to freedom. She is currently working on a comparative study of the Song's reception titled The Song of Songs: A Biography (to be published by Princeton University Press as part of the Lives of Great Religious Books series). She is the author of Countertraditions in the Bible: A Feminist Approach (Harvard University Press, 1992), The Biography of Ancient Israel: National Narratives in the Bible (University of California Press, 2000), Melville's Bibles (University of California, 2008) Agnon's Moonstruck Lovers: The Song of Songs in Israeli Culture (The Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies, University of Washington Press, 2013). Her work has focused on the nexus of Bible, literature, and culture as well as on questions of aesthetics and hermeneutics. She was a Senior Fellow at Scholion, Interdisciplinary Research Center in Jewish Studies at HU in 2008-2011. During the fall of 2009 she was a Fellow at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at Penn. She taught at Princeton University in 1990-1992 and as Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley in 1996 and in 2006 and at Harvard in 2012. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley in 1990. Ilana Pardes is Professor of Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she has been teaching since 1992.
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