Show overview
Hadar Campus Scholars launched in 2013 and has put out 48 episodes in the time since. That works out to roughly 20 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a fortnightly cadence.
Episodes typically run under ten minutes — most land between 6 min and 54 min — with run-times ranging widely across the catalogue. It is catalogued as a EN-US-language Religion & Spirituality show.
The catalogue appears to be on hiatus or wound down — the most recent episode landed 11.6 years ago, with no new episodes in over a year. The busiest year was 2013, with 41 episodes published. Published by David Zvi Kalman.
From the publisher
This podcast is associated with Hadar Campus Scholars, which is itself a program of Mechon Hadar, an egalitarian, non-denominational yeshiva in New York City.
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Torah & Tech: Complicated Technological Systems
What happens when it is no longer obvious how a technology works? To what degree are rabbis responsible to fully understand the technological systems with which they are grappling? The source sheet for this class can be found here: http://goo.gl/UK0ZXN
Torah & Tech: A Formal Invitation
This is a short invitation to this series of classes, taught by David Zvi Kalman at Penn Hillel. It explains the rationale behind the class and the hopes that have gone into its creation.
How to Prep and Deliver a Great Dvar Torah (sources in notes)
This class was co-taught by David Zvi Kalman and Rabbi Jonathan Shulman on April 24, 2014. davidzvi.com/onhalakhah/how_to_dvar_torah_sources.pdf
God through Anger (sources in notes)
This class lays out several ways in which it is possible to have a relationship with God based in feelings of anger and investigates why one would wish to do such a thing in the first place. Delivered on April 9, 2014. http://davidzvi.com/onhalakhah/03_God_through_Anger_sources.pdf
God Is: A Person (sources in notes)
EA survey of two major ways in which Jewish sources have related to God as being a person. This class was originally delivered on Mar. 3, 2014. http://davidzvi.com/onhalakhah/02_God_is_a_Person_sources.pdf
God Is: Jewish (sources in notes)
This class was originally delivered on Feb. 24, 2014. The topic was notions of God in Judaism where God is understood as having some kind of special relationship with the Jewish people. Source sheet: http://davidzvi.com/onhalakhah/01_God_is_Jewish_sources.pdf
Introduction to "God Is"
This is a short statement explaning the structure of the class.
On Halakhah: How does Halakhah deal with new technologies? (sources in notes)
This class is part of the second version of the series. It uses rabbinic responses to new technologies (e.g. electricity,lab-grown meat, Jews in space) as a peculiar subset of Halakhah which helps illuminate how rabbis negotiate between halakhic sources and their realities. It was delivered by David Zvi Kalman at Penn on Dec. 3, 2013. Source sheet: davidzvi.com/onhalakhah/On_Halakhah_and_New_Technologies.pdf
On Halakhah: Finding a Lost God in Halakhah (sources in notes)
This class is an attempt to provide new ways of thinking about God that do not clash with the way of thinking about God that we have so far put forward in this series. It was delivered by David Zvi Kalman at Penn on April 24, 2013. Source sheet: davidzvi.com/onhalakhah/On_Halakhah_10_Halakhan_and_Theology.pdf
On Halakhah: Taking Social Justice Halakhah Seriously (sources in notes)
This class is an attempt to reconcile issues of social justice with traditional modes of halakhic interpretations. The class was given on April 10, 2013, at Penn by David Zvi Kalman. Source sheet: davidzvi.com/onhalakhah/On_Halakhah_9_Is_Social_Justice_Halakhah_a_Farce.pdf
On Halakhah: Halakhah about Sex - What Kind of Halakhah is it? (sources in notes)
This lecture is an attempt to think about Jewish law as occupying a number of distinct genres, and to think about the halakhot of sexuality as representing a kind of halakhic writing which is frequently overlooked. The class is part of the ON HALAKHAH series. It was delivered at Penn on March 20, 2013 by David Zvi Kalman. Source sheet: davidzvi.com/onhalakhah/On_Halakhah_8_Halakhot_of_Sex.pdf
Parshanut Class: Parashat Tzav
Weekly class on commentaries on the weekly Torah portion, with a focus on traditional medieval commentators (ex. Rashi, Ramban), along with midrashic texts and medieval commentators. Recording of class on March 17, 2013, taught by Yael Kalman.
On Halakhah: A (Satisfying) Reconciliation of Halakhah and Homosexuality (sources in notes)
This class attempts to cover a wide variety of Orthodox and Conservative approaches to Halakhah and Homosexuality, include those of Rabbis Steven Greenberg, Joel Roth and Gordon Tucker. It concludes with a suggestion as to a new approach. The class was delivered as part of the ON HALAKHAH series at Penn on March 13, 2013, by David Zvi Kalman Source sheet: davidzvi.com/onhalakhah/On_Halakhah_7_Halakhah_and_Homosexuality.pdf
Z'vachim 3:2
Chaye Adam 24:13
Rules about forgetting to say v'ten tal u'matar.
Z'vachim 3:1
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Chaye Adam 11-12
Rules of the 4th and 9th blessings of the Amidah
On Halakhah: Can Women Lead All Parts of Communal Prayer? (sources in notes)
This is part of the *On Halakhah* series. It was delivered on February 27, 2013 at Penn by David Zvi Kalman. It addresses some of the halakhic material dealing with barriers (or lack of barriers) to women leading tefillah. Source sheet: davidzvi.com/onhalakhah/On_Halakhah_6_Women_in_Prayer_II.pdf
Z'vachim 2:5
Chaye Adam 24:9-10
Finishing up the rules of mashiv ha'ruach, plus the third blessing of the amidah.