• Kabbalat Shabbat: The Day Shmuel’s Teacher Made Him Cry: On Conflict between Students and Teachers – In this marvelous but short tale, the Talmud reflects on the best ways to address conflict between parents, teachers, and students. Suffice it to say, there are no simple solutions.
• Before Musaf: On Egos and Public Policy: Two Mishnayot in Rosh Hashsnah – Sometimes, halakhah abounds in pluralism, multiple opinions, and a live-and-let-live attitude toward differences of opinion and practice. Sometimes, halakhah requires conformity and centralized authority. In those cases, is there any way to distinguish the policy questions from the personalities of the disputants?
• At Seudah Shlishit (at SAJ- 15 West 86 Street): A Suicidal Princess, A Blind Rabbi, and A Murderous King: Bava Batra 3b – The Talmud reflects on King Herod’s rise to power, as those close to him try to manage his violent anger. How can subjects make the best out of a homicidal monarch?

We will gather at SAJ at 7 pm, daven mincha followed by seudah shlishit and Yoel Finkelman's talk, and conclude with maariv and havdalah.

Sponsored by Hannah Rothstein and Tzvi Borenstein in commemoration of the 20th Yahrzeit of Hannah's mother Molly Rothstein, z"l, Malka bat Chana v'Tuvia.

Babysitting available.

Please register for seudah shlishit below. $18 for adults; children are free.

Dr. Yoel Finkelman is Curator of the Haim and Hanna Salomon Judaica Collection at the National Library of Israel. After receiving his PhD in Jewish Thought from Hebrew University in 2003, Yoel taught for many years in batei midrash for women in Jerusalem, as well as at Bar-Ilan University and the Givat Washington Academic College. In addition to many articles on Jewish education, sociology, and modern Jewish thought, in 2011 he published Strictly Kosher Reading: Popular Literature and the Condition of Contemporary Orthodoxy.