2008 Morning & Torah Study Titles

Date Title
1.5.08 Morning Study
Torah Study
The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good
The Meaning of Belief
1.12.08 Morning Study
Torah Study
Staying Centered in Virtue
The Spiritual Journey as Reflectd in the Exodus Story
1.19.08 Morning Study
Torah Study
Introduction to the Ramchal's Mesilat Y'sharim (Paths of the Upright)
Liberty, Equality, Justice and Cinderella from the Perspective of Jewish Ethics
1.26.08 Morning Study
Torah Study
Theories of the World from the Ego Mind
Rules and Revelation
2.2.08 Morning Study
Torah Study
Acquiring Z'hirut/Vigilance as a Spiritual Practice
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2.9.08 Morning Study
Torah Study
Mussar & Teens
Mysticism and the Mishkan
2.16.08 Morning Study
Torah Study
Mussar & Teens #2
Biblical Mysticism and the Prayer Book
2.23.08 Morning Study
Torah Study
Jewish Views of God in the Bible
Images of Perfection and Downfall in Torah Portion Ki Tisa
3.1.08 Morning Study
Torah Study
Images of God in the Mind of the Rabbis
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3.8.08 Morning Study
Torah Study
The God of the Philosophers
Slaves to Artisans: Concluding the Book of Exodus
3.15.08 Morning Study
Torah Study
The God of the Mystics
Delving into Midrash #1
3.22.08 Morning Study
Torah Study
God and Modern Theology
Delving into Midrash #2
3.29.08 Morning Study
Torah Study
The Four Portions Before Passover: Parah- Purification from Destructive Thoughts
Archetypal Study of Nadav and Avihu
4.5.08 Morning Study
Torah Study
Review of the Arba Parshiyot
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4.12.08 Morning Study
Torah Study
Spiritual Freedom and Pesach
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4.19.08 Morning Study
Torah Study
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4.26.08 Morning Study
Torah Study
Intro to Omer; the Sephira of Chesed
Faith and Redemption
5.3.08 Morning Study
Torah Study
Gevurah and Redemption
Kedushah: A Self Contained, Anagogic Oxymoron
5.10.08 Morning Study
Torah Study
Tiferet in the Kabbalah
Suicidal Blasphemy; the 13th Gate
5.17.08 Morning Study
Torah Study
Netsach and Prophecy
Jewish Social Ethics and Welfare to the Poor
5.24.08 Morning Study
Torah Study
Hod: Form and Formalism
Deeper Meanings of the Hebrew Term "chok"
5.31.08 Morning Study
Torah Study
Yesod: A Kabbalistic Theory of Persona
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6.7.08 Morning Study
Torah Study
Malkhut/Shekhina and the Exile of God
Revelation and Mysticism
6.14.08 Morning Study
Torah Study
Wisdom From Proverbs
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6.21.08 Morning Study
Torah Study
Probing Proverbs #2
The Anxiety of Aaron and Miriam
6.28.08 Morning Study
Torah Study
Proverbs and Moral Philosophy
Narratives of Human Frailty
7.5.08 Morning Study
Torah Study
Jefferson’s Theology in the Declaration
Contemplative Practice as a Foundation of a Virtue Practice
7.12.08 Morning Study
Torah Study
From Skepticism to the Religious Life
The Story of Balaam's Donkey: Prophecy and its Problems
7.19.08 Morning Study
Torah Study
From Skepticism to Faith
Skepticism to Faith and the Study of Torah
7.26.08 Morning Study
Torah Study
Religion and the Symbolic Life
The Three Weeks: Narratives of the Struggle Against Sin
8.2.08 Morning Study
Torah Study
Labor Pains of Birthing the Soul
Moral Contemplation Facing the 9th of Av
8.9.08 Morning Study
Torah Study
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8.16.08 Morning Study
Torah Study
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8.23.08 Morning Study
Torah Study
Resistance to the Realized Life
The Spiritual Concept of "Reverence"
8.30.08 Morning Study
Torah Study
Patterns of Resistance
Finding Your Inner Heretic
9.6.08 Morning Study
Torah Study
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9.13.08 Morning Study
Torah Study
Fate and the Unetaneh Tokef
Political Spirituality
9.20.08 Morning Study
Torah Study
Thoughts on Teshuvah
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9.27.08 Morning Study
Torah Study
Beginning Thoughts on Forgiveness
Building a Matzevah for the Past Year
10.4.08 Morning Study
Torah Study
Shabbat Shuvah
Prelude to Yom Kippur
10.11.08 Morning Study
Torah Study
Transitioning from the Days of Awe to Sukkot
Sukkot: Practical and Spiritual Considerations
10.18.08 Morning Study
Torah Study
The Deeper Meanings of Sukkot
The Haftarahs of Sukkot and Shemini Atzeret
10.25.08 Morning Study
Torah Study
A Kotkser-esque Approach to Core Spiritual Values
Lengthy Digressions on Foundations of Jewish Study and Practice (and a little Torah Study)
11.1.08 Morning Study
Torah Study
A.J. Heschel and the Kotzker Rebbe
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11.8.08 Morning Study
Torah Study
Further thoughts on the Kotzker Rebbe
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11.15.08 Morning Study
Torah Study
The Tragic Life and Death of Uriel Acosta: Harbinger of Modern Jewish Thought
Circumcision of the heart as the inner covenant
11.22.08 Morning Study
Torah Study
Spinoza and Modern Religious Thought
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12.6.08 Morning Study
Torah Study
Early Reform Judaism and Modern JewishThought
Jacob and the Dark Night of the Soul
12.13.08 Morning Study
Torah Study
 
12.20.08 Morning Study
Torah Study

The metaphor of the pure oil in Chanukah as spiritual clarity
The Land of the Alienation of the Ancestors