Hadar Campus Scholars

David Zvi Kalman
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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.

  1. 10/01/2014

    Torah & Tech: Complicated Technological Systems

    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

    1h 1m

  2. 09/07/2014

    Torah & Tech: A Formal Invitation

    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.

    13 min

  3. 04/28/2014

    How to Prep and Deliver a Great Dvar Torah (sources in notes)

    This class was co-taught by David Zvi Kalman and Rabbi Jonathan Shulman on April 24, 2014. davidzvi.com/onhalakhah/how_to_dvar_torah_sources.pdf

    52 min

  4. 04/10/2014

    God through Anger (sources in notes)

    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. http://davidzvi.com/onhalakhah/03_God_through_Anger_sources.pdf

    1h 12m

  5. 03/04/2014

    God Is: A Person (sources in notes)

    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. http://davidzvi.com/onhalakhah/02_God_is_a_Person_sources.pdf

    58 min

  6. 02/25/2014

    God Is: Jewish (sources in notes)

    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. Source sheet: http://davidzvi.com/onhalakhah/01_God_is_Jewish_sources.pdf

    1h 2m

  7. 02/13/2014

    Introduction to "God Is"

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

    8 min
  8. On Halakhah: How does Halakhah deal with new technologies? (sources in notes)

    12/05/2013

    On Halakhah: How does Halakhah deal with new technologies? (sources in notes)

    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. Source sheet: davidzvi.com/onhalakhah/On_Halakhah_and_New_Technologies.pdf

    57 min
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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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  • Creator
    David Zvi Kalman
  • Years Active
    2013 - 2014
  • Episodes
    48
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © David Zvi Kalman
  • Show Website
    Hadar Campus Scholars