"Pirkei Avot: The Misunderstood Masterpiece," a Tikvah Summer Institute led by Meir Soloveichik скачать в хорошем качестве

"Pirkei Avot: The Misunderstood Masterpiece," a Tikvah Summer Institute led by Meir Soloveichik

The book of Avot is simultaneously the most beloved, and most unappreciated, text in the rabbinic cannon. Studied every summer on Shabbat afternoon, its maxims rise readily to the lips of the literate Jew; yet these very same sayings are treated as teachings uttered in a vacuum, unrelated to the unique lives of the sages that serve as their source. Even the common translation of the tractate- “Ethics of the Fathers” – reveals the misconception that the book’s focus is exclusively moral; in fact, Avot’s teachings also delve deeply into human nature and Jewish chosenness, the balance between obligation and creativity, the purpose of Torah study, and God’s relationship with the world. A true understanding of the maxims in Avot begins with learning the Talmudic literature about each of the sages cited, and thereby understand how each teaching is actually a window into the unique worldview, and history, of each Rabbi. Only then can Avot be understood as an intellectual history of Jewish minds that were often in debate, and who offered solutions to challenges in a pagan post-Temple world that was in many ways not unlike our own. This week-long lecture series will be led by Rabbi Dr. Meir Y. Soloveichik, director of the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University and the rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel, the oldest Jewish congregation in the United States. Learn more and apply at https://tikvahfund.org/summer-program... and https://tikvahfund.org/summer-programs/