Avot 2010

Beit Avi Chai presents “Avot 2010”: A look at the fathers.

The fourth season of the successful lecture series at BEIT AVI CHAI focuses on the rabbis themselves. Five sessions on the special people behind Pirkei Avot, their lives, the schools where they studied and taught, their aspiration to improve the world, and their place in Jewish history.

Organizer and moderator: Ariel Levinson, scholar and literary critic

Part 1: Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi (Judah the Prince)• Thursday, April 8, 8 PMGuest: Prof. Menahem Ben-Sasson, president of the Hebrew University

Part 2: Rabbi Eliezer and Rabbi Joshua• Thursday, April 15, 6:30 PMGuest: Rabbi Dr. Benny Lau, head of the Institute for Social Justice at Beit Morasha and rabbi of the Ramban synagogue* Note the time.

Part 3: Rabban Yohanan ben Zakkai• Thursday, April 22, 8 PMGuest: Rabbi Dr. Einat Ramon, lecturer in Jewish thought, contemporary Jewry, and women’s studies, Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies

Part 4: Rabbi Akiba• Thursday, April 29, 8 PMGuest: author Mira Magen

Part 5: Rabbi Meir • Thursday, May 13, 8 PMGuest: Prof. Avigdor Shinan

Note: On Thursday, May 6, there will be no session due to a Jerusalem Day event at BEIT AVI CHAI.

This is a Hebrew-language only event.