Around the Calendar with Drisha

Tisha B’Av 5779: ”Megillat Eicha” (1/5) with Rabbi David Silber

Tisha B’Av 5779: ”Preparing for Tisha B’Av – Studies and Reflections” (7/7) with Rabbi David Silber

Tisha B’Av 5779: ”Preparing for Tisha B’Av – Studies and Reflections (3/7)” with Rabbi David Silber

Tisha B’Av 5779: ”Preparing for Tisha B’Av – Studies and Reflections” (6/7) with Rabbi David Silber

Tisha B’Av 5779: ”Preparing for Tisha B’Av – Studies and Reflections” (5/7) with Rabbi David Silber

Tisha B’av 5779: ”Preparing for Tisha B’Av – Studies and Reflections” (4/7) with Rabbi David Silber

Part 3 – “Select Kinot” is part of the podcast series titled, “Preparing for Tisha B’Av – Studies and Reflections”
Rabbi Silber discusses the poem about the 10 martyrs,  ארזי הלבנון אדירי התורה

Tisha B’av 5779: ”Preparing for Tisha B’Av – Studies and Reflections” (2/7) with Rabbi David Silber

Tisha B’Av 5779: ”Preparing for Tisha B’Av – Studies and Reflections” (1/7) with Rabbi David Silber

Tisha B’Av 5779: ”In the Margins of Catastrophe: The Prequel and Postscript to the Book of Eicha” with Rabbi Joe Wolfson

In this class, our character of choice is the city of Jerusalem. Rather than studying Megillat Eicha, the classic text of destruction, we  instead look at the before and after. We begin with the historical background and context to the fall of Jerusalem in 586 B.C.E., examining the 'Jerusalem myth', the notion that had taken hold over the previous centuries that the city could never fall, and then move to the post-script, studying the midrashic commentary to Eicha, which subverts, undermines, and rewrites the Megilla to replace themes of destruction and despair with ones of comfort and continuity.

Shavuot 5779: ”Interpretation and Enactment: Elisha ben Avuya and the Book of Ruth” with Dr. Devora Steinmetz