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The schedule for the Summer Beit Midrash public lectures, July 9-31, is as follows:

 

--All programs will be at the Harvard Hillel unless otherwise noted--

52 Mt. Auburn St., Cambridge

Rabbi Robert Klapper, Program Director and Lecturer

 

Mondays:

7:30 - 9:30pm - Tanakh Program for High School and Post-Israel Women

 

July 9 - Rabbi Aryeh Klapper - "Feminist Satire in Sefer Shoftim"

July 16 - Mrs. Deborah Klapper - "The Kindest Cut of All"

July 23,30 - Topics and Instructors TBA

 

Tuesdays:

1pm - Community Lunch and Learn

Focus: Labor Justice in Jewish Law

July 10, 17, 24 - at American Jewish Congress, 126 High Street, Boston

Specific Topics TBA

 

7:30 - 9:30pm - Community Beit Midrash Nights lectures by Rabbi Aryeh Klapper

 

July 10 - At Congregation Ahavath Torah, Lynn

Topic: “Crimes of Passion in Jewish Law”

 

Focus: Why ask Why? Divine and Human Motives in Jewish Law

July 17 - At Congregation Kehillath Israel, Brookline

Topic 1: “The Tree of Life and Death”

July 24 - At Congregation Kehillath Israel, Brookline

Topic 2: “Does G-d Care about Our Motives?”

July 31 - At Congregation Kehillath Israel, Brookline

Topic 3: “Do We Care about G-d's Motives?”

 

Wednesdays:

July 25 – 4:00pm – Rabbi Joseph Polak

Topic: TBA

 

7:30 - 9:30 - Community Beit Midrash Nights at the Chabad Center of Lexington, 9 Burlington Street, Lexington

Focus: Three Talmudic Relationships

July 11 – “Beruriah and R. Meir: Why Can't a Woman be More like a Man?”

July 18 – “Resh Lakish and R. Yochanan”

July 25 – “Mosheh Rabbeinu and R. Akiva”

 

Thursdays:

7:30 - 9:30pm - Tanakh Program for High School and Post-Israel Women

Topics and Instructors TBA

 

July 12 – 3:30pm – Prof. Chanina Ben Menachem

Topic: “Halakhah L'Maaseh”

 

July 19 – 3:30pm – Rabbi Yona Reiss

Topic: TBA

 

Shabbat

July 21 – at Cong. Shaarei Tefillah, Newton

 

 

Note: SBM Fellows will be available to prepare with community members during the allotted time before each lecture. Source handouts will be available in Hebrew and English.


Monday

9:00 - 12:15 - Chavruta preparation for shiur

12:15 - 1:00 - Lunch

1:00 - 2:45 - Shiur

3 - 6:15 - Open Chavruta

6:15 -7:00 - Supper

7:30 - 9:30 - Open Chavruta

7:30 - 9:30 - Tanakh Program for High School and Post-Israel Women

July 9 - Rabbi Aryeh Klapper - "Feminist Satire in Sefer Shoftim"

July 16 - Mrs. Deborah Klapper - "The Kindest Cut of All"

July 23,30 - Topics and Instructors TBA

 

Tuesday

9:00 - 10:30 - Chavruta preparation for Shiur

10:30 - 11:20 - shiur

1pm - Community Lunch and Learn

July 10, 17, 24 - at American Jewish Congress, 126 High Street, Boston

Labor Justice in Jewish Law

Specific Topics TBA

4 - 5:45 - Open Chavruta

5:45 - 6:30 - Supper

7:30 - 9:30 - Community Beit Midrash Nights

July 10 - At Congregation Ahavath Torah, Lynn

"Crimes of Passion in Jewish Law"

July 17, 24, 31 - At Congregation Kehillath Israel, Brookline

Why ask Why? Divine and Human Motives in Jewish Law

1. "The Tree of Life and Death"

2. "Does G-d Care about Our Motives?"

3. "Do We Care about G-d's Motives?"

 

Wednesday

9:00 - 12:15 - Chavruta preparation for shiur

12:15 - 1:00 - Lunch

1:00 - 2:45 - Shiur

3 - 6:15 - Open Chavruta

Except Wed. July 25 - 4pm - Rabbi Joseph Polak - Topic TBA

6:15 -7:00 - Supper

7:30 - 9:30 - Community Beit Midrash Nights at the Chabad Center of Lexington, 9 Burlington Street, Lexington

July 11, 18, 25

Three Talmudic Relationships

1. "Beruriah and R. Meir: Why Can't a Woman be More like a Man?"

2. "Resh Lakish and R. Yochanan"

3. "Mosheh Rabbeinu and R. Akiva"

 

Thursday

9:00 - 12:15 - Chavruta preparation for shiur

12:15 - 1:00 - Lunch

1:00 - 2:45 - Shiur

3 - 6:15 - Open Chavruta

Except : July 12, 3:30 pm. - Prof. Chanina Ben Menachem - "Halakhah

L'Maaseh"

July 19, 3:30pm - Rabbi Yonah Reiss - Topic TBA

6:15 -7:00 - Supper

7:30 - 9:30 - Open Chavruta

7:30 - 9:30 - Talmud Program for High School and Post-Israel Women

July 12, 19, 26 - Topics and Instructors TBA

 

Friday

9 -11:45 - Open Chavruta

11:45 - 12:15 - Sichah

 

Shabbat

July 21- At Cong. Shaarei Tefillah, Newton