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Wednesday March 12, 2008 • 8:00 pm
Young Israel of Flatbush
1012 Avenue I, Brooklyn, NY 11230
(corner Coney Island Avenue; subway: Q train to Avenue J)
SPEAKERS:
Rabbi Kenneth Auman,
Rabbi,Young Israel of Flatbush
Rabbi Dovid Goldwasser, Rabbi, Khal Bais Yitzchok
Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, Executive Vice President of the Orthodox Union
Parshanut Hamikra: An Afternoon of Tanach learning
Sunday, March 23
For Men and Women- Free Admission
Registration at 12:30 PM, Sessions begin at 12:45 PM
Mincha and Conclusion 5:30 PM
Refreshments will be served
12:45pm
- Rabbi Allen Schwartz: INTRODUCTION: A Book for the Ages: How the Tanach has Been Studied Throughout History
- Dr. David Berger: Jewish Approaches to the "Suffering Servant" of Isaiah 53
- Mrs. Yael Leibowitz
- Rabbi Yehuda Sarna: God: A Character Analysis
- Rabbi Allen Schwartz: Do we read Rashi the way Ibn Ezra and Rashbam did?
- Dr. Shira Weiss: Philosophical interpretation of the Gan Eden Narrative
- Rabbi Jeremy Wieder: Omeq Peshuto shel Miqra: The Relevance of Academic Bible to Talmud Torah
- Ms. Miryam Brand: Biblical Interpretation in the Second Temple Period: “Rewritten Bible” & the Concept of Sin
- Dr. Arthur Hyman: Maimonides as Biblical Exegete
- Rabbi Menachem Leibtag: Yeshayahu - one of the earliest "parshanim" of Chumash
- Dr. Lawrence Schiffman: Halachic Midrash in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Chazal
- Rabbi Moshe Simkovitch: Biblical Sources of the Mitzva of Tefilla: Are Any Really About Prayer?
- Rabbi Shalom Carmy: “From the Depths”--Between Radak and R. Hutner
- Dr. Mordechai Cohen: Ha-peshatot ha-mithadeshim be-khol yom: Exciting new developments in the scholarly study of parshanut ha-miqra
- Rabbi Yaacov Jaffe: Ramban’s Thematic Analysis of Chumash: “Parshanut” or Forced Reading?
- Dr. Mitchell Orlian: Mishpat Micha - Micha Chapter 6 (Hebrew)
- Mrs. Malka Simkovitch: The role of fertility and infertility in the Gan Eden story and in the Patriarchal narratives in Genesis.
- Dr. Shawn Zelig Aster: The Image of Exodus in Isaiah
- Rabbi Ezra Frazer: How Do Mefarshei HaPeshat Approach Halachic sections of the Torah
- Dr. Shalom Holtz: Prayer in Heaven & Prayer on Earth in Tehillim 29
- Rabbi Menachem Leibtag: The underlying logic behind “ein mukdam u’m’uchar ba’Torah"
- Mr. Yehuda Kraut: Deciphering the Shema: A New Approach to Devarim 6:4
Co-sponsored by the Orthodox Union
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