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Item Open Access Podcast: Meir Soloveichik on the genius of Rabbi Norman Lamm.(Tikvah Fund, 2020-06-24) Soloveitchik, Meir; Silver, JonathanOn May 31, 2020, American Jewry lost a giant. Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm, the longtime president of Yeshiva University (YU), was one of the nation’s foremost defenders Orthodox Judaism and exponents of the Torah U’Madda—Torah and secular knowledge—philosophy that animates Modern Orthodoxy. His passing was followed with an outpouring of remembrances from friends, family, students, and admirers. Most of them, appropriately, shined light on Rabbi Lamm’s remarkable career as a turnaround artist. He inherited the leadership of Yeshiva University on unstable foundations and saved the flagship institution of Modern Orthodoxy. But writing in Commentary, Rabbi Meir Soloveichik focused his remembrance on something else: Rabbi Lamm’s career as a congregational rabbi before his leadership at YU. As Soloveichik reviewed Rabbi Lamm’s many speeches and sermons, he concluded that Lamm was “the greatest composer of sermons in the English-speaking rabbinic world.” In this podcast, Rabbi Soloveichik joins Jonathan Silver to discuss the basis of that judgment, and what Rabbi Lamm’s legacy of rabbinic oratory models for today’s pulpit rabbis. They focus especially on two of his most impressive sermons: “The Fountain of Life” and “Confessions of a Confused Rabbi.”Item Metadata only Take One Daf Yomi: Shabbat 144(Nextbook, 2020-07-28) Halpern, Stuart; Leibovitz, LielToday’s Daf Yomi page, Shabbat 144, encourages us to question authority. Rabbi Dr. Stuart Halpern joins us to explain why the relationship between rabbis and their congregations is a delicate dance, not a series of dictates. What to do when you disagree with your rabbi, your boss, or your Congressperson? Listen and find out.Item Metadata only Take One: Eruvin 21 and 22.(Nextbook, 2020-08-31) Halpern, Stuart; Leibovitz, LielToday's Daf Yomi pages, Eruvin 21 and 22, raise the question of divine reward: What, in other words, do we get if we’re very good and obey all the commandments? Rabbi Dr. Stuart Halpern joins us with a meditation on prizes, punishments, and personal responsibility. Is it true that good things always happen to good people? Listen and find out.Item Metadata only Take one: Eruvin 70 and 71.(Nextbook, 2020-10-19) Halpern, Stuart; Leibovitz, LielToday’s Daf Yomi pages, Eruvin 70 and 71, tell us that one point of setting up an eruv is to teach our children about the laws of eruvin. It's a surprisingly profound lesson, as Rabbi Dr. Stuart Halpern argues: In focusing so much attention on seemingly mundane technicalities, Judaism is showing us that the best way to engage in religious practice isn't by waiting for revelations but by working hard, day after day, at what's less exciting but far more important. What does all of it have to do with the month of Cheshvan, which begins today? Listen and find out.Item Metadata only Rabbi Dr Stuart Halpern on Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.(JCast, 2020-11-15) Halpern, Stuart; Finman, HerschelWelcome to The Jewish Hour with Rabbi Finman, for November 15, 2020. In this episode, Rabbi Finman talks to Rabbi Dr Stuart Halpern about the life and legacy of Dr Jonathan Sacks.Item Metadata only "The Christmas Episode" with Rabbi Stu Halpern.(2020-12) Westrich, Uri; Halpern, Stuart; Stern, RivkyChanukah has come and gone but we are still in the midst of the "holiday season"! This week Rivky and Uri speak with special guest Rabbi Dr. Stu Halpern about an article he wrote in Tablet Magazine last week. The article is titled "Why I Won't Let My Kids Watch That Very Special Christmas Episode". We talk to Stu about what motivated him to write the article, some of the feedback he's gotten about it, the tension between particularism and universalism, and more!Item Metadata only Take One: Pesachim 31.(Nextbook, 2020-12-22) Halpern, Stuart; Leibovitz, LielToday’s Daf Yomi page, Pesachim 31, is all about the boundaries Jews and gentiles must keep to live peacefully with each other. Rabbi Stuart Halpern joins us to help us to argue that respecting clear distinctions and differences makes society more, not less, cohesive. Why wouldn't he, a TV afficionado, let his kids watch that very special episode starring Santa? Listen and find out.Item Open Access The Tanakh in America with Guest Host Rabbi Dr. Stu Halpern.(Koren Publishers Jerusalem, 2021) Horn, Dara; Trapedo, Shaina; Grossman, Aryeh; Drucker, AlexAlthough the First Amendment prohibits the state adoption of a single religion, the Tanakh, the Hebrew Bible, has been a core influence on the American people, Republic, and society ever since Christopher Columbus set sail across the ocean. This week we are joined by a special guest host, Rabbi Dr. Stu Halpern, Senior Advisor to the Provost and Senior Program Officer of the Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University. Stu took on the task of educating our British native hosts, Aryeh Grossman and Alex Drucker, about how the ways in which the Tanakh has played such a key role in shaping America and Americans, both Jew and gentile.Item Metadata only Koren’s Esther in America featured on JM in the AM.(Koren Publishers Jerusalem, 2021-02) Halpern, Stuart; Segal, Nachum; Finkelstein, AvrumiNachum welcomed Dr. Stuart “Stu” Halpern to this morning’s JM in the AM to take a look at his new Koren Publication’s release, “Esther in America.”Item Open Access Stuart Halpern: Esther in America.(JCast Network, 2021-02-14) Halpern, Stuart; Finman, HerschelWelcome to The Jewish Hour with Rabbi Finman, for February 14, 2021. In this episode, Rabbi Finman talks to Stuart Halpern author of “Esther In America“.Item Metadata only Reimagining Purim(Nextbook, 2021-02-25) Butnick, Stephanie; Trapedo, Shaina; Unell, Kylie; Pogrebin, Abigail; Solomon, Anna; Khatiri, Shay; Leibovitz, Liel; Oppenheimer, MarkDr. Shaina Trapedo joined Tablet's Unorthodox podcast to discuss her essay in the book.Item Metadata only Take One: Pesachim 103(Nextbook, 2021-03-04) Koenigsberg, Chaya Sima; Leibovitz, LielToday’s Daf Yomi page, Pesachim 103, gives us strange mnemonics, including one that is making a star turn this year. Dr. Chaya Sima Koenigsberg joins us to talk about the rabbis’ love of acronyms, and why one acronym in particular inspired Jewish artists to illustrate Haggadot with, of all things, scenes from the rabbit hunt. What's with Jews and bunnies? Listen and find out.Item Metadata only Take One: Shekalim 10(Nextbook, 2021-03-31) Halpern, Stuart; Leibovitz, LielToday’s Daf Yomi page, Shekalim 10, extols the unique sanctity of the Land of Israel, which is intricately tied to the Omer. Rabbi Dr. Stuart Halpern joins us to talk about the Omer, why we count it, and what the experience can teach us about Eretz Yisrael and about repairing the world. Why is counting the Omer the antithesis of, say, riding your Peloton exercise bike? Listen and find out.Item Metadata only Shekalim 10(Nextbook) Halpern, StuartRabbi Dr. Stu Halpern joined Tablet's Take One Daf Yomi podcast to discuss the Omer and its connections to Israel and the Peloton workout bike