Lectures


		All of Rabbi Labaton's Classes Lectures at Beth Torah Rabbi Richard Hidary Three Conceptions of Sin, Three Paths to Atonement - 9/23/09 Lectures from The Center for Sephardic Heritage: David Shasha Patshegen Ha-ketab: History as Written Inscription in Megillat Esther - 3/11/09 Prof. Jose Faur Introduction by David Shasha The Horizontal Society Q and A - Respondent David Shasha Prof. Zvi Zohar Introduction by David Shasha: Hakham Matloub Abadi - Levantine Humanist Tragic Genius -- Hakham Matloub Abadi's creativity and self-portrayal as reflected in his Book Magen Ba'adi Text Handout (PDF) - Given at Congregation Magen David of Bensonhurst - 8/27/07 Rabbi Jonathan Sacks "The Dignity of Difference" - 4/30/04 Lectures from Ohel David and Shelomo Prof. Lawrence Schiffman The Significance of Community from Ancient to Modern Times - 6/12/07 Prof. Marc Shapiro Sephardic and Ashkenazic Approaches to Halakhah - 12/9/06 Lectures at the Sephardic Community Center: Prof. Robert M. Shapiro (Brooklyn College) Words from the Ashes: Secret Messages from the Sonderkommando at Auschwitz - Yom Hashoah 4/30/08 Prof. Steve Fine (Yeshiva University) Where is the Menorah? - 4/1/08 Lectures by Merkaz: Rabbi Marc Angel Rambam and the Philosophers: What Reason Can and Cannot Attain - 12/22/07 Prof. Marc Shapiro Rabbi Obadia Yosef and the Revival of Sephardic Halakha - 12/9/06 Prof. Moshe Halbertal The Rambam's View of Ahabat Hashem - flyer - 11/19/02 Making Yourself Available to Forgive - 12/3/05 Rabbi Moshe Shamah Understanding Midrash According to the Rambam - 3/22/04 Philosophic Ideas About Which Rambam Changed His Viewpoint - 3/29/04 Yom Kippur Prayers - 10/10/05 Prof. Sara Reguer "Community - The Backbone of Continuity" - 2/5/03 Prof. Mervin Verbit Shift to the Right: Reasons and Results - 4/12/05 Rabbi Ralph Tawil The Views of Rabbi Yehudah Halevi, Rambam, and Ramban about the Land of Israel - 3/12/03 Joseph Mosseri "Torah - Ancient Relic or Living Law: A Sephardic Rabbinical" - 4/2/03 Tashlikh - 9/27/03 Yom Hashoah Program 2003 Rabbi Nissim Elnecave - Introduction Stella Levy - The Story of Her Survival "Sephardic Jewry in the Holocaust" - 4/29/03 Yom Haasmaut Program 2007 Rabbi Natan Lopez Carzodo Raphaella Segal - Deputy Mayor of Kedumim Dr. Richard Tomback What Every Jew Should Know About Islam - 1/3/05 Islam and the Jews in Antiquity - 1/10/05 Lashon haKodesh: An Overview of the History of the Hebrew Language - 5/17/05 Iran and Islam by Richard Tomback, part 1 Iran and Islam by Richard Tomback, part 2 Iran and Islam by Richard Tomback, part 3 Ronnie Benun Tehillim class on 2/11/03 Tehillim class on 2/18/03 Professor Zvi Zohar - 10/31/04 The Role of Values and Outcome in the Halakhic Process: The Sephardic Approach Handout in Word format Professor Ya'akov Shwecka Game Theory in the Talmud - 4/27/04 Click here to download the slides for this lecture in Word Professor Ya'akov Speigel Sephardic Hakhamim of 16th-18th Centuries: Works & Methodologies (In Hebrew) - 6/14/04 David Shasha "Tradition in the Context of Modernity: An Introduction to the Book of Genesis" - part 1, part2 - 1/16/06 Dr. Sharon Flatto Introduction to Kabbalah part 1 - 12/1/03 Introduction to Kabbalah part 2 - 12/15/03