The Jewish Theological Seminary
Past Events of the Tikvah Institute
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Contemporary Jewish Theology |
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Thursday, March 31, 2011 Noted theologian Rabbi Irving "Yitz" Greenberg delivers a lecture,"The Renewal of the Covenant: Humanity Come of Age." |
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Thursday, March 10, 2011 Dr. David Novak of the University of Toronto lectures on the topic, "Zionism and Jewish Theology." |
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Contemporary Jewish Philosophy: Three Lectures |
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Wednesday, December 1, 2010 Professor Lenn Goodman, Vanderbilt University, delivers a lecture "On Holiness" "You shall be holy, for I the Lord, thy God, am holy" (Lev. 19:2). But if holiness is defined as transcendence, how do we emulate God's transcendence? How does this relate to God's charge to Israel to become a holy nation? |
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010 Professor Kenneth Seeskin, Northwestern University, discusses "Maimonides on the Days of the Messiah-Restorative or Utopian?" Is human effort all that is needed to bring the Messiah? Will we one day recognize that wealth and power are not the ultimate goals of human life and devote ourselves to study? Are Maimonides' views on messianism still valid? |
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Wednesday, October 6, 2010 Professor Michael Morgan, University of Toronto, explores the question, "Can There Be Judaism Without Revelation? Continuity and Discontinuity in Fackenheim's Jewish Thought" Emil Fackenheim argued that the answer is no, and that no principle is immune to modification or even rejection when confronted with the Holocaust. Can such a question even be answered in the shadow of the death camps? |
