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The Ramah's Complex Campaign Against Rambam
🎓 The highly-regarded Toledo authority waged an uphill battle against what he viewed as problematic ideas and positions in Rambam's works—until he…
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
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Audio | The Ramah's Complex Campaign Against Rambam
🎓 The highly-regarded Toledo authority waged an uphill battle against what he viewed as problematic ideas and positions in Rambam's works—until he…
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
12:22
Tishrei 5785: The Lives and Afterlives of U-Netaneh Tokef
❤️‍🔥 The haunting Rosh Hashana piyut U-Netaneh Tokef has a contested backstory, but the complex realities behind its many lives and afterlives tells…
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
Audio | Tishrei 5785: The Lives and Afterlives of U-Netaneh Tokef
❤️‍🔥 The haunting Rosh Hashana piyut U-Netaneh Tokef has a contested backstory, but the complex realities behind its many lives and afterlives tells…
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
14:44

September 2024

An Early Maimonidean Controversy in the East
🎓 The Maimonidean controversies began even during the Rambam's lifetime. Today, we look closely at one of these early cultural conversations that took…
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
Audio | An Early Maimonidean Controversy in the East
🎓 The Maimonidean controversies began even during the Rambam's lifetime. Today, we look closely at one of these early cultural conversations that took…
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
14:13
The Maimonidean Controversies: Series Introduction
🎓 Judaism is still grappling with apparent conflicts between human reason and Torah, but the past has a set of test cases for us to explore as we go…
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
Audio | The Maimonidean Controversies: Series Introduction
🎓 Judaism is still grappling with apparent conflicts between human reason and Torah, but the past has a set of test cases for us to explore as we go…
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
12:44
Elul 5784: Yarchei Kallah
🌘Beginning in the Talmudic period, the month of Elul, along with the month of Adar, was a time when students in Bavel would gather to learn Torah—a…
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
Audio | Elul 5784: Yarchei Kallah
🌘Beginning in the Talmudic period, the month of Elul, along with the month of Adar, was a time when students in Bavel would gather to learn Torah—a…
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
12:38
Av 5784: Rebuilding Jerusalem - The Emblematic Case of the Ramban Synagogue
🕍 What we know—and don't know—about the famously renewed synagogue in the Jewish Quarter of that Old City, and what it tells us about rebuilding in the…
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
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Audio | Av 5784: Rebuilding Jerusalem - The Emblematic Case of the Ramban Synagogue
🕍 What we know—and don't know—about the famously renewed synagogue in the Jewish Quarter of that Old City, and what it tells us about rebuilding in the…
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
10:14
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