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Rabbi Francis Nataf: We only begin with the parsha and discuss what everybody is missing about the Torah, Judaism, Israel and the world at large.

Groundhog Day, the Israeli Elections and Collective Punishment – The Parsha, ETC! with Rabbi Francis Nataf

No, our intention was not that the Israeli elections are collective punishment, though it would appear that they are. Rather what is intended is that the Torah's underlying justification of collective punishment, possibly found in this week's parsha, may be the key to getting out of the Groundhog Day cycle that the Israeli elections have become. Listen and found out why. — Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/francis-nataf/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/francis-nataf/support
  1. Groundhog Day, the Israeli Elections and Collective Punishment
  2. Is Machmir Always Better?
  3. Women's Day and the Voice of Sarah
  4. Esther's Da'as Torah (and ours)
  5. Converts, Covid and Community

Tanakh

The Gibeonite Concubine’s Father Download
Avraham’s Ninth TestDownload
A Rabbinic Reading of Shaul: The Hero of Binyamin (with source sheet)Download
A Rabbinic Reading of Job Download
Clothing and Unclothing as a Leitmotif in Ya’akov’s Family (with source sheet)Download
Moshe’s Pardonable Sin Download
Interpretation, Creativity and the Divine Text Download
Did Yitro Really Convert and What Difference Does it Make? Download
A Short History of Biblical IntermarriageDownload
What’s with the Tribes? An Overview of BemidbarDownload
Will the Real Esav Please Stand UpDownload
Exile and Leadership in the Lives of Moshe and Ya’akovDownload

David and Bathsheva I, David and Bathsheva II 

Video – Why Jews Should Continue to Ignore the Bible Critics

Jewish Thought

Language, Metaphor and Meaning Download
Command, Coercion and ModernityDownload
Pesach and the Global Village Download
The Two (Jewish) State SolutionDownload
The Argument for Radical Revision of the Jewish Studies Curriculum Part IDownload
The Argument for Radical Revision of the Jewish Studies Curriculum Part IIDownload
History and Messianism in the Thought of Rav KookDownload
Hegel, Rav Kook and the MessiahDownload
Judaism’s Censorship Problem (The Libertarian Implications of Contemporary Realia) Download
Darwin, Rav Kook and Free Market JudaismDownload
On the Limits of Orthodoxy I – A Public Conversation with R. Aryeh KlapperDownload
On the Limits of Orthodoxy II – A Public Conversation with R. Aryeh KlapperDownload
Modernist Islam and Modern OrthodoxyDownload

The Need for Human Creativity in Judaism

Video – Who are you Calling a Hellenist? Models of Integration (For the source sheet, click here.)

Video – Thinking Jewishly: Israel, Jewish and Democratic

Video – Hegel, History and Rebbe Akiva – A New Take on Sefirat HaOmer 

Halachic Theory

The Halachic Enterprise Download

Criteria and Parameters of Halachic Change – Mini Course (Winter 2009): Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI, Part VII, Part VIII

Other

Creative Torah Learning and Postmodernism (Short)Download
Learning Torah with Your Spouse, Making it a Growth Experience and not a BattlefieldDownload

Video – Can We Pray?

More Audios can be found at:

Yeshivat Chovevei Torah’s Multimedia Library (Yemei Iyun in Tanakh and Jewish Thought 2007, 2008, 2010, 2014)

Torah in Motion Podcasts