The theme of the Rabbinic Torah Seminar for Summer 2022 is Overcoming the Moral Status Quo: A Torah of Human Agency
The Shalom Hartman Institute is a Jewish research and education institute based in Jerusalem, that offers pluralistic Jewish thought and education to scholars, rabbis, educators, and Jewish community leaders in Israel and North America. The institute's goal is to strengthen Jewish peoplehood, identity and pluralism, enhance the Jewish and democratic character of Israel, and ensure that Judaism is a compelling force for good in the 21st century.
Here is the schedule for the first day -- today. It was wonderful!
Tuesday, July 5th
11:00 AM First-Timer Pre-Orientation and Campus Tour
12:00 PM RTS Registration and Lunch
1:00 PM Welcome and Orientation
LAUREN BERKUN | DONNIEL HARTMAN
2:00 PM Introduction to Shiur and Hevruta
ELANA STEIN HAIN
3:30 PM
Shiur
Zionism and Covenantal Theology
ELANA STEIN HAIN
5:30 PM
Elective Sessions
Part I
Week One Electives: Theology, Technology, and the Natural World
Mara Benjamin – Being Jewish in the End Times
Elana Stein Hain – Holiness and Nature
Melila Hellner-Eshed – The Kabbalistic Worldview and
Environmentalism
David Zvi Kalman – Rabbinic Responses to Climate
Change and Technological Development
Rachel Korazim – Israeli Jewish and Palestinian Poetry
on Mastering the Land
Dani Segal – A Mussar of Kashrut: Where Utopia, Nature,
and Human Nature Meet
7:00 PM Festive Opening Dinner
8:00 PM
Evening Program
Political Possibilities and Moral Visions: Part I
BASHIR BASHIR | DONNIEL HARTMAN
9:00 PM Optional Ma’ariv
Room of Many Hearts
