Musings from Students of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem
Posted on June 12, 2012 by Esther DuBow
By Esther DuBow, PEP ’12 Daniel Weinreb, you are truly a scholar and a gentleman and having you as a colleague these past two years has been wonderful. I want that “sugya” you wrote for closing lunch. In return, I’ll give you a copy of our spiel, (PAUSE) assuming there are some left that weren’t Continue Reading »
Posted on March 25, 2012 by Derek Kwait
(X-posted from my home blog, Yinzer in Yerushalayim) Sunday night Pardes made history as the first yeshiva ever to host the launching event for a new edition of the New Testament. The Jewish Annotated New Testament, co-edited by friend of Pardes and Gene Wilder look-alike, Mark Z. Brettler, is actually a lot like the original Continue Reading »
Posted on January 22, 2012 by Naomi Zaslow
The Spring semester begins today! Here are the “goodbye” videos from the last community lunch of Fall semester: For those who missed it, R. Landes is taking a sabbatical this semester… he’ll be back next Fall!
Posted on November 4, 2011 by Barer
This week on the podcast, we hear from Rav Landes as he discusses the beginning of Avram‘s journey – don’t forget the handout if you are listening. Lech Lecha 5766
Posted on February 28, 2011 by David Bogomolny
As part of my Fellows project, I get to work with Rosh Yeshiva Rav Landes on his vlog. He’s often working overseas, but we recently had the opportunity to film 2 sessions of a new video havruta series with him and Rabbi Adam Frank (a Pardes alumnus!). Check out parts ONE & TWO (there will hopefully Continue Reading »
Posted on November 2, 2010 by Eryn
Rabbi Steinsaltz’s great siyyum teaches a wonderful lesson. Siyyum means completion. We are often accustomed to think of learning as some endless process which leads to more learning. But siyyum means that we are to learn something so well that we are able to say – we have “completed” it. This is the notion of Kinyan Torah – acquiring Continue Reading »
Posted on October 24, 2010 by David Bogomolny
I won’t do this every time we update Rav Landes’ vlog, but here’s his 2nd pre-(U.S.)election update! (I’m into U.S. politics so this subject matter is particularly interesting to me) (again, thanks to Tali Allen for video editing!)
Posted on September 21, 2010 by David Bogomolny
Whoohoo! Rav Landes’ (Sh)tender Thoughts Vlog is inactive no longer! I’ll be posting links to his Vlog posts as Tali & I edit them! =)
Posted on December 3, 2009 by Pious Antic
The rumors were swirling even before the day of Rav Landes’ shiur k’lali last week. Tuesday morning he would be addressing the Pardes community about kavod shel Beit Midrash (respect for the Beit Midrash) and what this means in terms of behavior. Although presumably no one knew in advance exactly what our Rosh Yeshiva was Continue Reading »
