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[Alumni Guest Post] Vistors to Our Hearts by James Jacobson-Maisels

Posted on November 26, 2012 by The Director of Digital Media

This dvar Torah was written by James Jacobson-Maisels (Pardes Kollel ’01-’03). Today, we know and love James as one of our amazing Pardes faculty, teaching classes such as ‘Self, Soul & Text’, and running our Pardes Spirituality Retreats! One of the great mitzvot, modeled in our recent parshiot by Avraham Avinu, is hakhnasat orchim, the Continue Reading »

[Pardes from Jerusalem Podcast] VaYetze 5773: Jacob’s Exodus from Haran

Posted on November 23, 2012 by The Director of Digital Media

This week, Dr. Meesh Hammer-Kossoy discusses Jacob’s Exodus from Haran in VaYetze. Click here to listen Shabbat shalom!

[Pardes From Jerusalem Podcast] Toldot 5773: Isaac

Posted on November 16, 2012 by The Director of Digital Media

This week, Rabbi Alex Israel discusses Parashat Toldot and Isaac. Click here to download. Shabbat Shalom!

[Student Profile] Aileen Heinberg

Posted on November 14, 2012 by David Bogomolny

Aileen Heinberg grew up in a Modern Orthodox community in Brooklyn, NY, and graduated from the Yeshiva of Flatbush, which she’d attended since kindergarten; Torah learning was so woven into the fabric of her environment that she came to take it for granted. Nevertheless, the young woman eventually grew to appreciate Jewish learning as a Continue Reading »

Noah Story – Character Narratives

Posted on November 13, 2012 by The Director of Digital Media

Chumash Class Narrative Summary: Noah v. Ham An integral part of R. Daniel Roth’s חוּמָשׁ class (this year’s first installment of the Peace and Conflict track) is the summaries that students are asked to create at the end of a unit. Rabbi Roth gives free creative reign to his students to use whatever methods speak Continue Reading »

[Pardes From Jerusalem Podcast] Chayei Sarah 5773: And She Fell off the Camel

Posted on November 8, 2012 by The Director of Digital Media

This week, Rabbi David Levin-Kruss discusses Parashat Chayei Sarah in “And She Fell Off the Camel.” Click here to download. Shabbat Shalom!

[Pardes from Jerusalem Podcast] Vayera 5769

Posted on November 1, 2012 by The Director of Digital Media

In this Pardes from Jerusalem Classic, Rav Meir Schweiger discusses Parashat Vayera.       Shabbat Shalom!

Gone Hikin’

Posted on November 1, 2012 by Lauren Schuchart

This past weekend, I was fortunate enough to be included in a shabbaton with some of my classmates at our teacher’s house. We went on a hike beforehand, which was b-e-a-utiful. I also got to use my new camera lens! My first eBay purchase (they were practically giving it away!). Nothing too impressive yet, but Continue Reading »

Creation of the Third Story (Mediation in the Chumash)

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Avigayle Adler

I drew this picture as part of a unit summary in Daniel Roth’s Chumash class; Mediation in the Chumash. We spent a couple of weeks learning through the Adam and Eve story including an exhaustive study of the meforshim (both modern and classic as well as many in-between). At the end of the unit (as Continue Reading »

[Pardes from Jerusalem Podcast] Lech Lecha 5773: Avraham the Warrior

Posted on October 25, 2012 by The Director of Digital Media

This week, Rav Meir Schweiger discusses Parshat Lech Lecha. Click here to download. Shabbat shalom!