Audio Lectures Uploaded from This Summer’s YCT Yemei Iyun in Tanakh and Jewish Thought
Two weeks ago, nearly four dozen audio recordings from this summer’s Yeshivat Chovevei Torah‘s Yemei Iyun in Tanakh and Jewish Thought were uploaded. Having dispensed with previous years’ arrangement of lectures on specific books within the Jewish Bible (תנ”ך (TaNaKh)), this year’s Yemei Iyun in Tanakh and Jewish Thought allowed for speakers to speak on any book within the Jewish Bible, along with a track for Jewish Thought. For this track, this year’s topic was The Theology of Habad Hasidut for the first day, with the second day’s track being Science and Judaism.
All of the audio files, which are in mp3 format, can be found from the main page, which has subcategories for Torah, Nevi’im, Ketuvim, The Theology of Habad Hasidut, and Science and Judaism. There are 17 talks on Torah, 10 for Nevi’im, 9 for Ketuvim, 5 for The Theology of Habad Hasidut, and 5 for Science and Judaism, yielding 46 in total. Of these, five were delivered in Hebrew – one by Rachel Keren (“Malakhi: The Close of Prophecy”) and four by Rabbi Yuval Cherlow (“Iyov: Was He Righteous or Wicked?”, “The Proper Educational Approach to Teaching the David and Batsheva Narrative”, “Unraveling Shir HaShirim”, and “Why is Olam Haba Not Mentioned in the Torah”). Below is a listing of the remaining 41 audio recordings in English, by topic.
Rabbi Aryeh Klapper speaking at the 2015 YCT Yemei Iyun in Tanakh and Jewish Thought
Torah:
- Rabbi Yitzchak Etshalom – “A Tale of Two Cities: Where Did the Avot Live?“
- Rabbi Yitzchak Etshalom – “ברכת משה – An Analysis of Moshe’s Farewell Speech“
- Rabbi Yitzchak Etshalom – “תועבת מצרים – What was the Abomination?“
- Miriam Gedwiser – “Noah’s Raven“
- Dr. Deena Grant – “How Does the Day of Atonement Atone?“
- Dr. Deena Grant – “The Biblical Flood in Its Ancient Near Eastern Context“
- Rabbi Aryeh Klapper – “How to Read Like Hazal: Why Did God Not Conceal the Fate of Sedom from Avraham?“
- Rabbi Aryeh Klapper – “Why Does the Torah End before the Jews Enter Israel? Some Thoughts Based on Ramban“
- Dr. Samuel Lebens – “Abraham and the Empty Altars“
- Rabbi Menachem Leibtag – “Reexamining מכת בכורות in Light of מכת חושך”
- Rabbi Menachem Leibtag – “Who Are the כהנים-לויים of ספר דברים?“
- Rabbi Nachman Levine – “Bamidbar: The Counter-song of the נשיאים“
- Rabbi Chaim Marder – “The Bitter Waters and the Delicious Food: The מי מריבה and Manna Sequence“
- Rabbi Avi Walfish – “Revealing the Selection of the לויים – A Three Act Drama in Bamidbar“
- Rabbi Avi Walfish – “Who Sold Joseph and Why it Matters“
- Rabbi Avi Weiss – “ויאבק איש עמו: The Tension Between Activism and Appeasement in Genesis 32“
Nevi’im:
- Rabbi Hayyim Angel – “The Message of the Book of Haggai”
- Rabbi Hayyim Angel – “The Message of Zecharya”
- Dr. Yitzhak Berger – “Sefer Yonah and the Garden of Eden”
- Rabbi Jeffrey S. Fox – “Are you ALL IN for Torah? Joshua 24 and the Seder”
- Dr. Michelle Levine – “Of Vineyards and Grapes: Yeshayahu’s Song”
- Rabbi Nachman Levine – “Bamidbar: בנות מואב as Narrative, Poetry, and Geography – At Once”
- Rabbi Asher Lopatin – “Shoftim Chapter 18: The Curious Story of the Idol of Micha, the Kidnapped Cohen and the Destruction of the Tribe of Layish – Lessons from the Contemporary World”
- Rabbi David Silber – “‘There is a Prophet in Israel’:The Character of Elisha”
Rabbi Dr. Ben Elton speaking at the 2015 YCT Yemei Iyun in Tanakh and Jewish Thought
Ketuvim:
- Rabbi Hayyim Angel – “Psalms 105-106: Decoding Historical Psalms”
- Rabbi Yitzhak Berger – “Divine Power in Psalm 20”
- Mitchell First – “The ‘Pe-Ayin’ Structure in the Book of Eikha and Its Implications for Tehillim”
- Rachel Keren – “איש ימיני: Between Mordechai and Esther and Shaul”
- Rabbi Menachem Leibtag – “Teaching Sefer Tehillim on a Book Level”
- Rabbi Menachem Leibtag – “The Chronology of Sefer Ezra and Daniel – Between Peshat and Derash”
- Dr. Michelle Levine – “Kiddush Hashem in the Book of Daniel”
Rabbi Yanki Tauber speaking at the 2015 YCT Yemei Iyun in Tanakh and Jewish Thought
The Theology of Habad Hasidut:
- Rabbi Dr. Ben Elton – “Theological Current in the Shulhan Arukh HaRav”
- Dr. Nehemia Polen – “Habad Hasidut and Tiberan Hasidut: The Thought of Rabbi Shnuer Zalman of Liadi Compared to that of Rabbi Avraham of Kalisk-Tiberias”
- Rabbi Eli Rubin – “צמצום in the Thought of Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi”
- Rabbi Yanki Tauber – “The Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Philosophy of Torah – Part 1: The Unity of Torah”
- Rabbi Yanki Tauber – “The Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Philosophy of Torah – Part 2: The Divine and Human in Torah”
Science and Judaism:
- Dr. Samuel Lebens – “Folk Science and Folk Theology”
- Rabbi Dov Linzer – “Science and Halakha: Sympathies and Strategies”
- RK Dina Najman – “The Genesis of Life: Stem Cell Research, Cloning and the Jewish Tradition”
- Rabbi Daniel Reifman – “Getting to the Heart of the Brain Death Debate”
- Dr. David Shatz – “Science and Religious Consciousness”
Having taken place on June 28th and June 29th in New York City, the Yemei Iyun in Tanakh and Jewish Thought took place in cooperation with Beit Morasha of Jerusalem, Center for Modern Torah Leadership, Drisha Institute for Jewish Education, Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals, Midreshet Ein HaNatziv, Midreshet Lindenbaum,Torah in Motion USA, Yeshivat Maale Gilboa and Yeshivat Maharat.
