Belovski

My LSJS Courses

• The Patchwork Bible (2015)
• Responding to Bible Criticism in an Age of Reason
  

• What Should a Jew Believe? (2015)
  
• The Challenges and Reality of Faith in the 21st Century
  

• The Book of Bamidbar (2014)
• In Pursuit of Perfection

• Pleasure and Aesthetics the Jewish Way (2014)
• Are Beauty and Pleasure Jewish Ideas or Evils?
  

• Heschel and Two Approaches to Revelation (2013)
• Rabbi Yishmael vs. Rabbi Akiva, based on sources in Professor A.J. Heschel's work
  

• Praying the Festivals (2013)
• A Dynamic Study of Yom Tov Tefillot

• Shabbat: Prayer and the Soul (2013)
  • A Dynamic Study of Shabbat Tefillot
    

• 21st-Century Halachah (2012)
  • How does Torah stay Relevant?

• 19th-Century Existential Angst (2012)
  • Dostoevsky and Ishbitz

• Outrageous Introductions (2012)
  • Radical Rabbinical Ideas in Great Introductions

• The Meraglim (2012)
  
  • Superficial gossips, Self-Interested Crooks or Altruistic Visionaries

• Discovering Tzelophchad (2012)
  
  • Sinner or Tragic Hero?

• Stealing from the Internet (2012)
  
  • Discover how Jewish Law is meeting the Challenges of Cyberspace

• Unmasking Korach (2011)
  
  • A Multi-Layered Adventure

• Kashrut on a Plate (2011)
  
  • The Odd end of Kashrut

• An Introduction to Kabbalah (2011)
  
  • The Origin, Authenticity and Function of Kabbalah

• The Fifth Book (2011)
  • The Content, Structure and Purpose of Sefer Devarim

• The Maharal of Prague (2011)
  • A Study of his Works and Ideas

• Revelation (2010)
  • Reading the script or writing the story?

• The Piaseczno Rebbe (2010)
  • The radical thought of Rabbi Kalonymous Kalmish Shapiro הי"ד

• The Golden Calf (2010)
  • Idolatry, leadership struggle or mystical misunderstanding?

• Demystifying the Mishkan (2009)
  
  • Midrashic, esoteric and philosophical perspectives

• The Purpose of Korbanot (2009)
  • Why offer animals?

• The Zohar (2009)
  
  • The background and impact of the Zohar

• Contraception (2009)
  • The development of halachic attitudes to contraception

• The Rebbes' Revolution (2009)
  • Radical trends in 19th century Polish Chassidic thought

• Ya'akov and 'the Man' (2009)
  
  • Wrestling with the Future

• The Akeidah (2008)
  
  • The challenge of uncertainty in the face of the Divine
    

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