What happens when it is no longer obvious how a technology works? To what degree are rabbis responsible to fully understand the technological systems with which they are grappling? The source sheet for this class can be found here: http://goo.gl/UK0ZXN

Hadar Campus Scholars

Torah & Tech: Complicated Technological Systems

This is a short invitation to this series of classes, taught by David Zvi Kalman at Penn Hillel. It explains the rationale behind the class and the hopes that have gone into its creation.

Torah & Tech: A Formal Invitation

This class was co-taught by David Zvi Kalman and Rabbi Jonathan Shulman on April 24, 2014.

How to Prep and Deliver a Great Dvar Torah

This class lays out several ways in which it is possible to have a relationship with God based in feelings of anger and investigates why one would wish to do such a thing in the first place. Delivered on April 9, 2014.

God through Anger

A survey of two major ways in which Jewish sources have related to God as being a person. This class was originally delivered on Mar. 3, 2014.

God Is: A Person

This class was originally delivered on Feb. 24, 2014. The topic was notions of God in Judaism where God is understood as having some kind of special relationship with the Jewish people.

God Is: Jewish

This is a short statement explaning the structure of the class.

Introduction to "God Is"

This class is part of the second version of the series. It uses rabbinic responses to new technologies (e.g. electricity,lab-grown meat, Jews in space) as a peculiar subset of Halakhah which helps illuminate how rabbis negotiate between halakhic sources and their realities. It was delivered by David Zvi Kalman at Penn on Dec. 3, 2013.

On Halakhah: How does Halakhah deal with new technologies?

This class is an attempt to provide new ways of thinking about God that do not clash with the way of thinking about God that we have so far put forward in this series. It was delivered by David Zvi Kalman at Penn on April 24, 2013.

On Halakhah: Finding a Lost God in Halakhah

This class is an attempt to reconcile issues of social justice with traditional modes of halakhic interpretations. The class was given on April 10, 2013, at Penn by David Zvi Kalman.

On Halakhah: Taking Social Justice Halakhah Seriously

This lecture is an attempt to think about Jewish law as occupying a number of distinct genres, and to think about the halakhot of sexuality as representing a kind of halakhic writing which is frequently overlooked. The class is part of the ON HALAKHAH series. It was delivered at Penn on March 20, 2013 by David Zvi Kalman.

On Halakhah: Halakhah about Sex - What Kind of Halakhah is it?

 Weekly class on commentaries on the weekly Torah portion, with a focus on traditional medieval commentators (ex. Rashi, Ramban), along with midrashic texts and medieval commentators. Recording of class on March 17, 2013, taught by Yael Kalman. 

Parshanut Class: Parashat Tzav

This class attempts to cover a wide variety of Orthodox and Conservative approaches to Halakhah and Homosexuality, include those of Rabbis Steven Greenberg, Joel Roth and Gordon Tucker. It concludes with a suggestion as to a new approach. The class was delivered as part of the ON HALAKHAH series at Penn on March 13, 2013, by David Zvi Kalman

On Halakhah: A (Satisfying) Reconciliation of Halakhah and Homosexuality

Z'vachim 3:2

Rules about forgetting to say v'ten tal u'matar.

Chaye Adam 24:13

This podcast is associated with Hadar Campus Scholars, which is itself a program of Mechon Hadar, an egalitarian, non-denominational yeshiva in New York City.

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