Seminar: “A New World View Out of the Sources of Halakhah”
Sunday, August 30, 2020
| Heshey Zelcer | Hakirah CEO
and member of Review Board. Coauthor with Meir Zelcer, The Philosophy of Joseph B. Soloveitchik, forthcoming by Routledge. |
Narrator/Moderator. My encounter with the Rav. |
| Scott A. Shay | Chairman and co-founder of Signature Bank, and founder of Chai Mitzvah. Author of "In Good Faith," 2019. | Faith is Rational. |
| R. Meir Triebitz | Machon Shlomo, editor of "Lectures on Genesis” | The Halachic Mind: What did the Rav mean when he wrote “Out of the sources of Halacha, a new world view awaits formulation"? |
| Prof. Lawrence Kaplan | McGill University | The Rav’s Lectures on the Guide, and particularly the theme of the unified order of existence. |
| Prof. Daniel Rynhold | Dean, Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies | The Rav and science. |
| R. Mark Smilowitz | Hebrew University | The continuity between Halakhah and religious experience according to the Rav's mathematical-scientific model. |
| Dr. Harry Ballan | Senior Director, The Tikvah Fund | Living historical religious consciousness as a source of knowledge in the Rav’s new world view. |
| David P. Goldman | Deputy Editor of Asia Times. Has written extensively on R. Soloveitchik and Jewish philosophy for Hakirah and other publications. | The Rav's Incomplete Grand Design. |
| Prof. Moshe Koppel | Bar-Ilan University | Comments on the lectures. |
| R. Dr. Stanley Boylan | Vice-President Undergraduate Division and Dean of Faculties, Touro College | Comments on the lectures. |