Learning at Der Nister

Der Nister Los Angeles
  • 0.0 (0)
  • JUDAISM
  • UPDATED BIMONTHLY

Recordings of teachings on Zoom regarding a variety of Jewish topics.

  1. 06/14/2025

    Philosophy on the Parshah: Beha'alotcha and Dante

    Rabbi Ye'ela Rosenfeld, speaking from Der Nister, weighs Dante Alighieri's dim view of lust againstthat of the Sefat Emet, in relation to parshah Beha'alotcha. This video is a supplement to Rabbi Rosenfeld's parshah column, which you can find on https://www.dernister.org/newsletter-columns or in our newsletter.#dante #jewish #philosophy #parshah

    12 min

  2. 06/07/2025

    Philosophy on the Parshah: Bamidbar and Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    Rabbi Ye'ela Rosenfeld, speaking from Der Nister, breaks down the idea of Rousseau's General Will and suggests an improvement to it in the form of the Ben Ish Chai's insight on the parshah Bamidbar. This video is a supplement to Rabbi Rosenfeld's parshah column, which you can find on https://www.dernister.org/newsletter-columns or in our newsletter.#rousseau #jewish #philosophy #parshah

    13 min

  3. 06/07/2025

    Philosophy on the Parshah: Naso and Emile Durkheim

    Rabbi Ye'ela Rosenfeld, speaking from Der Nister, connects the observations of sociologist Emile Durkheim on religion to parshah Naso. This video is a supplement to Rabbi Rosenfeld's parshah column, which you can find on https://www.dernister.org/newsletter-columns or in our newsletter.#durkheim #jewish #philosophy #sociology #parshah

    13 min

  4. 05/24/2025

    Philosophy on the Parshah: Behar and Rainer Maria Rilke

    Rabbi Ye'ela Rosenfeld, speaking from Der Nister, looks at how the Shmitah year, the year of letting fields stay fallow, is related to Rilke's advice on how to be courageous in uncertainty. This video is a supplement to Rabbi Rosenfeld's parshah column, which you can find on https://www.dernister.org/newsletter-columns or in our newsletter.#rilke #jewish #philosophy #parshah

    12 min

  5. 05/17/2025

    Philosophy on the Parshah: Emor, Ecclesiastes and Yehuda Amichai

    Rabbi Ye'ela Rosenfeld, speaking from Der Nister, looks at how we view time, as a way to mix experiences or keep them separate, through a debate between Kohelet (Ecclesiastes and Yehuda Amichai). The debate is inspired by Parshah Emor. This video is a supplement to Rabbi Rosenfeld's parshah column, which you can find on https://www.dernister.org/newsletter-... or in our newsletter.

    10 min

  6. 01/17/2025

    The Primordium

    Panui's Rabbi Aubrey Glazer and Dr. Elyssa Wortzman and Der Nister's Rabbi Zach Golden speak with translator Dr. Nathan Wolski, artist Tunni Kraus, and members of the band The Bashevis Singers — Evie Gawenda, Husky Gawenda and Gideon Preiss on the occasion of the online launch of Dr. Wolski's translation of Der Nister's epic poem.

    1h 28m

  7. 07/13/2023

    Why is Yiddish Popular?

    Zach Golden and Kultur Mercado founder Aaron Castillo-White discuss the big-picture cultural theories that explain how the descendants of immigrants become attracted to languages and cultures that their ancestors abandoned to order to explain the resurgence of Yiddish.

    54 min

  8. 01/10/2023

    Double Consciousness of Two Prayers

    Readers of our newsletter may be familiar with Joelle Milman, our poet-in-residence of 2022. She wrote a weekly poem in response to the weekly haftarah (prophetic) portion as an ongoing epic. In these poems, she transports us to a surreal world where the character she creates struggles with, for, and against God in direct thematic conversation with the language and story of the weeks’ reading. Joelle reads selections of her work, explains her writing process, and explores her inspirations for it with Rabbi Zach Golden, followed by a Q and A.  Joelle is from LA and lives in Tel Aviv, where she is writing her MA thesis on the mystic element in Mina Loy’s poetry at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She is joining the team at Breaking the Silence, an Israeli peace advocacy organization.

    1h 3m
See All (19)

About

Recordings of teachings on Zoom regarding a variety of Jewish topics.

Information

  • Creator
    Der Nister Los Angeles
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2025
  • Episodes
    19
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Der Nister Los Angeles
  • Show Website
    Learning at Der Nister