5781 Rabbi Brand Morning Shiur
October 18th
“Who Is a Jew? Introduction to David Ben Gurion’s Letter”
October 25th
“The Definition of A Jew: Distinct”
November 1st
“A Bond with Hashem: Jewish Distinctiveness”
November 8th
“The Chosen People: Love, Commitment and Our Relationships with Others”
November 15th
“To Be a Jew: To Be Part of the Jewish People”
November 22nd
“Rav Chaim Heller zt”l: Reflections of a Friend/Gadol”
December 13th
“Torah Actualized: Rav Yitzchak Issac Halevi Herzog zt”l”
December 20th
“Shai Agnon: Bridging the Old and the New”
January 3rd
“Ephraim E. Urbach & Academic Jewish Studies”
January 10th
“Appreciating Our Halacha: Responsa and the letter of Dr. Solomon Freehof”
January 31st
“Light and Vessels: Abraham Joshua Heschel’s Life and Letter”
February 7th
“Take Responsibility and Influence Your Environment: The Lubavitcher Rebbe”
February 14th
“Devotion to Mesorah: Rav Yosef Kapach zt”l and the Yemenite tradition”
February 21st
“The Experience of Judaism: Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik’s reflections”
March 7th
“Striving for Personal Greatness: The Alter of Slabodka, Rav Chatzkel Sarna and Rabbi Raphael Pelcovitz”
March 14th
“Bedikat Chametz: Searching Our Homes and Our Hearts”
April 11th
“Judaism and Zionism: Story and Letter of Haim Hazaz”
April 18th
“Synthesis: Torah and Academia with Rabbi Dr. Alexander Altmann”
April 25th
“A Partnership Between Rabbis and Community: Halachic Leadership through the Prism of French Jewish History-Napoleon and Andre Neher”
May 9th
“Knowing We Don’t Know”
May 16th
“Two Aspects of Torah in the Tradition of Brisk”
May 23rd
“Judaism and Christianity”
May 30th
“Who is a Jew: A Review of the Sources by Rabbi Shlomo Goren”
June 6th
“A Traditional Approach by a non-traditional Jew”
June 20th
“Torah Life Lessons from an Italian Father-Son Duo”
June 27th
“On Conversion: Understanding the Personal and Communal Aspects of Our Avodat Hashem”
July 11th
“The Jewish Peoplehood”