Ḥiddushim: Celebrating Hebrew College’s Centennial

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Ḥiddushim

Celebrating Hebrew College’s Centennial

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Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2022

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A Centennial, writes Hebrew College President Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld, is an opportunity “to ask ourselves what has changed and what has endured…to articulate our aspirations for the next one hundred years.” Gathering incisive essays in Jewish studies alongside powerful personal stories, Ḥiddushim celebrates a community connected to its source and brimming with spiritual and intellectual creativity as it looks toward the future.

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Social Sciences Education Theory and History of Education

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Introduction
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Message from the Editors
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Section I: Memory and History
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1 A Home for Jewish Learning in “The City on the Hill”: The History of Hebrew College
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Daniel Judson

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2 Four Men Entered an Orchard
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Arnold J. Band

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3 Girsa de-Yanquta, or Hebrew in the Afternoon: A Memoir of the Prozdor in Worcester
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Ira Robinson

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4 Israel Studies and the Hebrew (Teachers) College: A Memoir
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Ilan Troen

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5 What They Celebrated, He Mourned: Arnold Wieder’s The Early Jewish Community of Boston’s North End (1962)
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Jonathan D. Sarna

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6 Searching for Treasure: A Journey Back to Hebrew College
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Daniel Klein

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7 Across Five Pesaḥs
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Shayna Rhodes

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Section II: Studies in Jewish Thought, History, and Literature
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8 The Fate of the First Clothing
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Rachel Adelman

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9 Seeking Sarah
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Anne Lapidus Lerner

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10 Jacob and Esau: Twinship and Identity Confusion
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George Savran

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11 The Book of Judith: A Literary Appreciation
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Judith A. Kates

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12 A Woman Walks Into a Bar: Betrothal Stories in Bavli Qiddushin
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Jane L. Kanarek

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13 What Problem? Medieval and Contemporary Responses to the “Oven of Akhnai” Story
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Michael Rosenberg

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14 Legal Authority, Memory, and Moral Worthiness: Tosefta Pisḥa 4.13–14 and Later Rabbinic Traditions
184
Michael Fishbane

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15 Mystical Ethics: Rabbi Moshe Cordovero and Tomer Devorah as Commentary on the Idra Rabbah
203
Melila Hellner-Eshed

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16 R. Levi Yiẓḥaq of Zelichow and His Quest for Leadership in the Early Hasidic Movement
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Avraham Yiẓḥaq Green

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17 “Seek Me and Live”: Reflections on the Spiritual Journey
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Ariel Evan Mayse

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18 Rabbi Elimelekh Shapiro of Grodzisk: Sketching a Nineteenth-Century Hasidic Leader
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Nehemia Polen

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19 The Lives of Berish Baʻal Teshuvah
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Avinoam J. Stillman

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20 Contemporary Israeli Explorations of Spiritual and Psychological Insights in the Tales of Rabbi Naḥman of Bratslav
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David C Jacobson

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21 A Mystical Reunion in Manitoba: Howard Thurman and Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
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Or N. Rose

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22 “Kakha Zeh Ḥinukhi”— “That Makes It Educational”: Parabolic Style in Kafka, Keret, and Castel-Bloom
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Abigail Esther Gillman

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23 Reading the Sefat Emet for Religious Consciousness: Modulations on Or ha-Ganuz
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Elie Holzer

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24 Growing Up Jewish: Me’ah and American Jewish Adulthood
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David B. Starr

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25 Striving for Shlemut: Navigating Explicit and Implicit Religiosity in Jewish Education
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Michael Shire

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Contributors
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Index
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May 17, 2022

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9781644698570

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416

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644698570

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Keywords for this book

Hebrew College; Centennial; colleges and universities; learning; higher education

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College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;General/trade;

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Ḥiddushim

Overview

About this book

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Message from the Editors

1 A Home for Jewish Learning in “The City on the Hill”: The History of Hebrew College

2 Four Men Entered an Orchard

3 Girsa de-Yanquta, or Hebrew in the Afternoon: A Memoir of the Prozdor in Worcester

4 Israel Studies and the Hebrew (Teachers) College: A Memoir

5 What They Celebrated, He Mourned: Arnold Wieder’s The Early Jewish Community of Boston’s North End (1962)

6 Searching for Treasure: A Journey Back to Hebrew College

7 Across Five Pesaḥs

8 The Fate of the First Clothing

9 Seeking Sarah

10 Jacob and Esau: Twinship and Identity Confusion

11 The Book of Judith: A Literary Appreciation

12 A Woman Walks Into a Bar: Betrothal Stories in Bavli Qiddushin

13 What Problem? Medieval and Contemporary Responses to the “Oven of Akhnai” Story

14 Legal Authority, Memory, and Moral Worthiness: Tosefta Pisḥa 4.13–14 and Later Rabbinic Traditions

15 Mystical Ethics: Rabbi Moshe Cordovero and Tomer Devorah as Commentary on the Idra Rabbah

16 R. Levi Yiẓḥaq of Zelichow and His Quest for Leadership in the Early Hasidic Movement

17 “Seek Me and Live”: Reflections on the Spiritual Journey

18 Rabbi Elimelekh Shapiro of Grodzisk: Sketching a Nineteenth-Century Hasidic Leader

19 The Lives of Berish Baʻal Teshuvah

20 Contemporary Israeli Explorations of Spiritual and Psychological Insights in the Tales of Rabbi Naḥman of Bratslav

21 A Mystical Reunion in Manitoba: Howard Thurman and Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

22 “Kakha Zeh Ḥinukhi”— “That Makes It Educational”: Parabolic Style in Kafka, Keret, and Castel-Bloom

23 Reading the Sefat Emet for Religious Consciousness: Modulations on Or ha-Ganuz

24 Growing Up Jewish: Me’ah and American Jewish Adulthood

25 Striving for Shlemut: Navigating Explicit and Implicit Religiosity in Jewish Education

Contributors

Index

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