e-TiM Past Programs

Renewing Our Spirit 7th Annual Conference
Rabbi Michael Broyde, Rabbi Dr. Yoel Finkelman,
Rabbi Benny Lau, Rabbi Yitzchak Adlerstein,
Dr. Elliott Malamet, Rabbi Yehuda Gilad, Dr. Tamar Ross

Parshat Lekh Lekha - Rabbi Marc Dratch

“Flipping Out”: Myth Or Fact? The Impact of the "Year in Israel" - Rabbi Shalom Berger, Dan Jacobson, Chaim I. Waxman, Gil Student

Dr. Arnold Lustiger - The Rav’s Machzor

Rachel Kohl Finegold - Personal Offenses and Yom Kippur: Levinas on Atonement. Download Source

Rabbi Alex Israel - Yonah: Divine Judgement and the Frailty of Man  Download Source

Rabbi Pinchas Hayman - What On Earth Is Malchut Hashem

Rabbi Menachem Leibtag - "Kapara" Rituals - How & Why do they work? The Biblical connection between 'right' and 'wrongs'

Rabbi Gidon Rothstein - "Middah Ke-neged Middah as a Guide to One's Personal Teshuvah". Download Source

Rabbi Jay Kelman - The Sounds Behind the Shofar

Dafna Siegman - Seeking Salvation: Elul and Tehillim Ch.27. Download Source

Rabbi Moshe Rosenberg - Ki Tavo: Turning Curses into Blessings

Rabbi Howard Jachter - Making Sense of Akeidat Yitzchak

Rabbi Eric Levy - The Circle of Life: Hope and Despair in Koheleth
Rabbi Eric Levy - Thesis and antithesis, evaluation and re-evaluation: The intellectual honesty of the man called Koheleth

Rabbi Alex Israel - Yonah and the Secret of Prayer.  Download Source
Rabbi Alex Israel - Yonah: Is Teshuvah Possible?

Rabbi Yehudah Mirsky - Teshuvah in the Thought of Rav Kook: Let the Sunshine In. Download Source
Rabbi Yehudah Mirsky - Teshuvah in the Thought of Rav Kook: Catch the Wave. Download Source

Rabbi Marc Angel - Musar for Moderns: Reflections for the High Holy Days

Parsha Perspectives

Rabbi Gidon Rothstein	Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Rabbi Jack Bieler	Thursday, February 21st, 2008	Download Source
Rabbi Jay Kelman	Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Rabbi Hayyim Angel Rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel (the Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue) of New York City. He also teaches advanced undergraduate Tanakh courses at Yeshiva University	Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Rabbi Dr. Yehuda Mirsky - Rav Kook's New Meaning of Freedom. Download Source

Rabbi Dr. Pinchas Hayman - The Seder as an Educational Tool: Method and Methodology

Rabbi Alex Israel - Does Eliyahu Drink the Cup? The Role of Eliyahu at the Seder

Dafna Siegman - Chad Gadya: Symbolism and History. Download Source

Rabbi Daniel Feldman - The 4 Cups of Wine in Jewish Law and Thought

Rabbi Heshie Billet - Understanding Jewish History through the Hagadah

Rabbi Howard Jachter - Measures and Medicines: Eating and Medications on Pesach
Non-observant guests at the Seder. Download Source

Rabbi Zvi Grumet - My 4 Children: who are they and what are they doing at my Seder

Rabbi Moshe Rosenberg - The Meaning of the Plagues

Rabbi Jay Kelman - Next Year In Jerusalem: The Seder of the Exile

Rabbi Menachem Leibtag - Tehillim 105: Psukei d'Zimra or The earliest version of MAGID
Download: Source 1, Source 2 , Source 3 , Source 4 , Source 5

Rabbi Chaim Eisen - Pesach's Holistic Message and the Seder’s Contradictory Symbols and Conflicting Motifs

Ilana Sober - Myth, Memory, and Matza. Download Source

Rabbi Moshe Rosenberg - Ta'amei Ha-Mikrah as Interpretive Tools
Far beyond mere musical instructions, the ta'amei ha-mikrah teach us how to divide, and thus interpret the words of Tanakh.  In three sessions you will learn the hierarchy of the ta'amim, explore some of their interpretations of key verses, and observe the attitude of reverence, yet challenge, adopted by medieval parshanim towards those interpretations. An optional fourth session will deal with when one is obligated to correct a ba'al koreh, when one need not, and when one must not.
Download Source (Mar. 12) | Download Source (Mar. 19)

Rabbi Yitzchak Blau - Existence After Death
Does Judaism believe in reincarnation? What will the world to come be like? Should the world to come motivate us to perform mizvot? This course will investigate these fascinating questions. Download Source (Mar. 25)

Dr. Marc Shapiro - Architects of Modern Orthodoxy
What are the roots of what is now known as Modern Orthodoxy? How did its ideas develop and where might its future lie? Join Dr. Marc Shapiro, a world-renowned Jewish intellectual historian, as he brings to life some of the leading 19th century thinkers whose ideas laid the foundations for an engaged Modern Orthodoxy. In two-week segments we will focus on Rabbi Ben Zion Uzziel, Rabbi Joseph Kafih, Rabbi Shlomo Goren, Rabbi Isser Yehudah Unterman.

Rabbi Moshe Rosenberg - Morality for Muggles
Rabbi Moshe Rosenberg drew on his experience teaching and writing about Harry Potter and Judaism to examine themes in which each can illuminate the other. Each week we examined two topics, drawing from Torah literature and the seven HP volumes, as well as supplementary sources. Some topics: Lost and Found, Three by Three, Manners, A Wand to Call my Own, G-d's Unbreakable Vow.

Dr. Marc Shapiro - Movers and Shakers in Post-War Orthodoxy
Session Topics: Sreidei Aish, R. Herzog, Chazon Ish, Satmar Rebbe, Rav Moshe Feinstein, Rav Ovadiah Yosef

Rabbi Howard Jachter - Cutting Edge Halachic Issues

Dr. (Rabbi) Eddie Reichman - Jewish Medical Ethics - Past Present and Future: From Transplanted Mummies to Face Transplants
    Handout 1, Handout 2, Handout 3, Handout 4

Rabbi Menachem Leibtag - Sefer Yirmiyahu: When Politics and Religion Clash

Rabbi Menachem Leibtag - From the Chumash to the Siddur: The Biblical roots of Prayer

Dr. Marc Shapiro - Architects of Modern Orthodoxy: From R. Samson Raphael Hirsch to R. Jehiel Jacob Weinberg

Dafna Siegman - Joseph and his Brothers:  Textual Explorations  

Rabbi Natan Slifkin - Zoo Torah: An exploration of the animal kingdom in Jewish law and thought

Rabbi Shalom Carmy, Dr. Arnold Lustiger, Ethan Isenberg, Rav Hershel Schachter, Dr. David Shatz - The Legacy of the Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik - special e-TiM broadcast from Toronto 

Renewing Our Spirit - special e-TiM broadcast from Toronto

Rabbi Menachem Leibtag - From the Bible to the Machzor: The Biblical themes behind the High Holiday Prayers