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JLI Course

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6 Wednesdays, 11:00-12:30
Jan 25th - March 1

Instructor: Rabbi Shlomo Cohen

This course is being offered for both online and in-person attendees

 
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WHEN (EVENINGS)

6 Tuesdays, 7:30-9:00 P.M.
Jan 24th - Feb 28th

Instructor: Rabbi Yossi Groner

This course is being offered for both online and in-person attendees

 
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Epstein Chabad Center for Jewish Life, 6619 Sardis Road

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Fee: $99 per person or $180 per couple

 

Course Overview

Book Smart:
Course through Judaism's Most Important Titles, and the Authors Who Inscribed Them


A panoramic overview of 3000 years of Jewish learning, this course introduces you to the works that earned us the title "The People of The Book." You will experience the different genres that shape Jewish life, including Tanach, Midrash, Talmud, Halachah, Philosophy, Kabbalah, Musar, Chasidism, and meet the influential personalities who drove thirty centuries of Jewish scholarship. Whether you're meeting these texts for the first time or as a seasoned scholar, this course will inform and enrich all your Jewish learning.
 

Lesson Outline

 

 01
The Torah

We begin by addressing the question, What is the Torah? We discover how the whole of Jewish teaching (the Torah in its broader meaning) derives from the Chumash (the Torah in its narrower meaning). We also discuss the relationship between the Written Torah and the Oral Torah, and how these two components of Torah constitute a partnership of Divine revelation and the human toil of the mind.

We then introduce the twenty-four books of the Tanach. We explain the differences between Torah, Neviim, and Ketuvim, and review the contents of each. We also see how the roots of the different genres of Torah: Midrash, Halachah, Kabbalah, Musar, etc. are all in the Written Torah, as will be further demonstrated in each of the next five lessons.

 

02
The Midrash

"Midrash" is both a methodology and a body of literature. In this lesson, we explore both aspects of Midrash. We study the various methods by which additional layers of meaning contained within the words or between the lines of the Torah are expounded. We also acquaint ourselves with some of the major Midrashic works that record the expositional teachings by the sages of the Talmudic era (approximately 100 BCE to 500 CE).

Midrash includes Halachic (legal) expositions, which extrapolate the details of the Torah's laws from the text, as well as Agadic Midrashim, moral, philosophical, and mystical teachings, as well as historical narratives and parables. We study examples from both of these varieties of Midrash, including a number of intricate legal expositions, and an esoteric parable relating to a celestial battle over the creation of the human being and the paradox of goodness and truth.

 

03
The Talmud

More than any other work, the Talmud defines Jewish learning. In this lesson, we review the history of the Talmud, explore the structure of this intricate and fascinating work, with its 63 volumes of teachings and deliberations by hundreds of sages over a period of six centuries on virtually every subject under the sun. We also engage in the in-depth study of a Talmudic sugya (subject discussion) and experience the unique twists and turns of the Talmudic dialectic.

In the process, we discover how Talmudic learning leverages the flaws of the human mind, its circuitous reasoning, its contentiousness, and its inconsistencies to reveal the multifaceted nature of the Divine wisdom and apply it to the complexities of human life.

 

04
Halachah

Halachah is the bottom line of Torah, where the biblical commandments, rabbinical ordinances, and Talmudic deliberations translate into the dos and don'ts of daily life. Halachah addresses every part of a Jewish life, from waking to bedtime, from birth to burial, from everyday activities to the most extraordinary situations.

In this lesson, we explore the history of Halachah, from its sources in the Written Torah, through the Halachic Midrashim, the Talmud and its commentaries, the various codes compiled through the centuries, and the many thousands of Halachic responsa authored through the centuries. We survey the great variety of issues and dilemmas that Halachah addresses. We then bring it all to life via a case study that traces a Halachic issue from its biblical origins through more than a dozen citations across the entire spectrum of Halachic literature.

 

05
Musar and Jewish Philosophy

Musar is the body of Torah teachings that deals with ethics, character development, and spiritual self-improvement. The field of Jewish philosophy, also known as Chakirah, includes works devoted to discussing the philosophy and ideology of Judaism. While these constitute two distinct areas of Torah literature, there is also a certain degree of overlap between them; indeed, some of the fundamental works of Jewish philosophy are also works of Musar, and vice versa.

In this lesson, we review the history and the primary authors and works in these two fields. We then study a number of texts covering three related topics in both these fields: the doctrine of creation ex nihilo (something from nothing), bitachon (trust in G‑d), and the emotion of anger.

 

06
Kabbalah and Chasidism

Kabbalah is the Torah's mystical dimension, containing its most powerful and empowering ideas. But for many centuries, the teachings of Kabbalah were carefully guarded secrets, transcribed only in the guise of esoteric terminology and metaphors, and taught only to a small, exclusive circle of mystics in each generation. Chasidism is both an extension of Kabbalah as well as a field of Torah in its own right, revealing the inner soul that unites the Torah's various components and applying its most abstract spiritual teachings in personally meaningful ways.

In this lesson, we survey the history of Kabbalah and Chasidism. We address the question of why these teachings were kept secret, and why and how they were eventually revealed. We then explore one of the core subjects of Kabbalah,the doctrine of the Ten Sefirot beginning with a mysterious passage in the Zohar, followed by a series of Kabbalistic and Chasidic texts that examine the great paradox of G‑d's relationship with us, and the body-soul dichotomy that defines our own lives.

 
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