Hadar Campus Scholars

Torah & Tech: Complicated Technological Systems

What happens when it is no longer obvious how a technology works? To what degree are rabbis responsible to fully understand the technological systems with which they are

Torah & Tech: A Formal Invitation

This is a short invitation to this series of classes, taught by David Zvi Kalman at Penn Hillel. It explains the rationale behind the class and the hopes that have gone i

How to Prep and Deliver a Great Dvar Torah (sources in notes)

This class was co-taught by David Zvi Kalman and Rabbi Jonathan Shulman on April 24, 2014. davidzvi.com/onhalakhah/how_to_dvar_torah_sources.pdf

God through Anger (sources in notes)

This class lays out several ways in which it is possible to have a relationship with God based in feelings of anger and investigates why one would wish to do such a thing

God Is: A Person (sources in notes)

A survey of two major ways in which Jewish sources have related to God as being a person. This class was originally delivered on Mar. 3, 2014. http://davidzvi.com/onhala

God Is: Jewish (sources in notes)

This class was originally delivered on Feb. 24, 2014. The topic was notions of God in Judaism where God is understood as having some kind of special relationship with the

Introduction to "God Is"

This is a short statement explaning the structure of the class.

On Halakhah: How does Halakhah deal with new technologies? (sources in notes)

This class is part of the second version of the series. It uses rabbinic responses to new technologies (e.g. electricity,lab-grown meat, Jews in space) as a peculiar subs

On Halakhah: Finding a Lost God in Halakhah (sources in notes)

This class is an attempt to provide new ways of thinking about God that do not clash with the way of thinking about God that we have so far put forward in this series. It

On Halakhah: Taking Social Justice Halakhah Seriously (sources in notes)

This class is an attempt to reconcile issues of social justice with traditional modes of halakhic interpretations. The class was given on April 10, 2013, at Penn by David

On Halakhah: Halakhah about Sex - What Kind of Halakhah is it? (sources in notes)

This lecture is an attempt to think about Jewish law as occupying a number of distinct genres, and to think about the halakhot of sexuality as representing a kind of hala

Parshanut Class: Parashat Tzav

Weekly class on commentaries on the weekly Torah portion, with a focus on traditional medieval commentators (ex. Rashi, Ramban), along with midrashic texts and medieval c

On Halakhah: A (Satisfying) Reconciliation of Halakhah and Homosexuality (sources in notes)

This class attempts to cover a wide variety of Orthodox and Conservative approaches to Halakhah and Homosexuality, include those of Rabbis Steven Greenberg, Joel Roth and

Z'vachim 3:2

Chaye Adam 24:13

Rules about forgetting to say v'ten tal u'matar.

Z'vachim 3:1

Chaye Adam 11-12

Rules of the 4th and 9th blessings of the Amidah

On Halakhah: Can Women Lead All Parts of Communal Prayer? (sources in notes)

This is part of the *On Halakhah* series. It was delivered on February 27, 2013 at Penn by David Zvi Kalman. It addresses some of the halakhic material dealing with barri

Z'vachim 2:5

Chaye Adam 24:9-10

Finishing up the rules of mashiv ha'ruach, plus the third blessing of the amidah.