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Jerusalem Lecture Series: Audio Library

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Some of the most important lectures and shiurim given at the Cardozo Academy and elsewhere by Academy dean, Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo and other DCA faculty have been made accessible to the public due to the generosity of Steve Russo and family. The files below can be accessed by speaker and topic and can be heard online and/or downloaded.

By Category

Contemporary Issues

  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: Inaugural Lecture – Giur and Jewish Identity (October 9, 2007)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: Judaism and the Religious Error (August 15, 2005 – Summer Seminar)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: Giur and Jewish Non-Jews: Unusual Suggestions for a Serious Problem (Sept 24, 2008)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: A Great Jewish Idea (January 2008)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: The Future of Judaism (June 2007 – Elmau Conference)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: Are We Losing the Land of Israel?
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: God’s Sake Whose Land are we occupying anyway? (April 26, 2009)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks: After Modern Orthodoxy, Then What? (June 29, 2003)
    Download Audio or Listen Online

Jewish Thought

  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: Inaugural Lecture September 9, 2005 The Beit Midrash of Avraham Avinu
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: The Joy of Heresy (December 12 2007 – Winter Seminar)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: Hearing and Seeing (October 2004)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: Revelation and its Relevance (July 28, 2004 – Summer Seminar)
    Download Audio Part 1 or Listen Online Part 1 Download Audio Part 2 or Listen Online Part 2
  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: Spinoza, Creativity and Torah (December 25, 2006)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: Satan and the Atheist on Judaism (June 2007 – Elmau Conference)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: Counting Jews and the Future of the State of Israel (October 2008)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: Why the Laws of Kashrut were Given too Late
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: God,Spinoza and the Kabala
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: The Mystery of Holiness: Kiddush Hashem and Chillul Hashem (May 2006)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: Judaism as a Complement (Nov 2009)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Francis Nataf: Hegel, Rav Kook and the End of Jewish History (July 18, 2007)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Prof. Yehudah Gellman: The Buddha and I: A Case-Study in a Neo-Rav Kook-ian Approach to World Religions (August 15, 2005 – Summer 05 Seminar)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Prof. Menachem Marc Kellner: Who Decides Who is a Heretic? (December 12, 2007 – Winter Seminar)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Dr. Elliott Malamet: How to Teach the Alienated Child (December 16, 2008)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Zvi Leshem: Meditational and Mystical Techniques of The Piaseczner Rav
    Part 1 (February 3, 2009) Download Audio or Listen Online
    Part 2 (February 10, 2009) Download Audio or Listen Online

The David Cardozo Academy Lecture Series 2009-2010

  • Rabbi Dr. Elizer Shore: Finding Soul in Jewish Studies (Nov 10, 2009)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: Are God and His Torah “fair”?
    Observations concerning evil and the morality of the Halacha (March 2010)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Professor William Kolbrener: After the Death of Moses: Judaism and Fundamentalism (April 12, 2010)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Francis Nataf: Modern Islam and Modern Orthodoxy: Parallel Non Sequitur? (June 6, 2010)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Professor Howard Wettstein: Religious doubt: A mode of religious life? (July 6, 2010) Download Audio or Listen Online
Holidays and Special Events

    • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: Sheloshim Lecture: Mrs Bertha Lopes Cardozo z.l. (February 13, 2007)
      Download Audio or Listen Online
    • Rabbi Prof. Daniel Sperber, Rabbi Yuval Cherlow, Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: Book Launch – “For the Love of Israel and the Jewish People” (May 26, 2008)
      Download Audio or Listen Online

Baal Teshuva Seminar

  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: The Baal Teshuva Movement Revisited – Personal Reflections and Public Recommendations – Introduction (December 21, 2008)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Dr. Elliott Malamet, Response: Rabbi Dr. Eliezer Shore: The Baal Teshuvah and the Orthodox Community (December 21, 2008)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Francis Nataf, Response: Gila Manolson: Fear Within, Fear Without – Why the Movement Could have Changed the World and Why it Didn’t (December 21, 2008)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: Baal Teshuvah Seminar Summation (December 21, 2008)
    Download Audio or Listen Online


    • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: Keynote Address 08-09 Student Leadership Training Program Culmination (June 21, 2009)
      Download Audio or Listen Online

The David Cardozo Academy Annual Chanukah Seminar (2009)
“The Other in the Tanakh”

  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: Introduction (November 13, 2009)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Zvi Grumet: The “Other” in the Family (November 13, 2009)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Francis Nataf: Pagans, Thieves and other Fathers-in-law (November 13, 2009)
    Download Audio or Listen Online

Halacha

    • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: Towards a New Halacha (September 13, 2008)
      Download Audio Part 1 or Listen Online Part 1
      Download Audio Part 2 or Listen Online Part 2
    • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: Futuristic Judaism Contra Halacha, Pro Mitzvah (April 23, 2009)
      Download Audio Part 1 or Listen Online Part 1
      Download Audio Part 2 or Listen Online Part 2
    • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: Religious Authenticity, Conflict of Opinion, Halachic Diversity (May 5, 2009)
      Download Audio or Listen Online
Explorations in Halachic Thought

  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: The Future of Halacha
    Part 1 (March 24, 2009) Download Audio or Listen Online
    Part 2 (March 24, 2009) Download Audio or Listen Online
    Part 3 (May 26, 2009) Download Audio or Listen Online
    Part 4 (June 2, 2009) Download Audio or Listen Online
    Part 5 (June 9, 2009) Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Francis Nataf: Criteria and Parameters for the Legal Interpretation of Halacha
    Part 1 (January 20, 2009) Download Audio or Listen Online
    Part 2 (January 27, 2009) Download Audio or Listen Online
    Part 3 (February 3, 2009) Download Audio or Listen Online
    Part 4 (February 10, 2009) Download Audio or Listen Online
    Part 5 (February 17, 2009) Download Audio or Listen Online
    Part 6 (February 24, 2009) Download Audio or Listen Online
    Part 7 (March 3, 2009) Download Audio or Listen Online
    Part 8 (March 10, 2009) Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Francis Nataf: Censorship and the Information Age (June 23, 2003)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Francis Nataf: Command, Coercion and Modernity (January 1, 2006 – Winter Seminar)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Francis Nataf: The Halachic Enterprise (October 4, 2008)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbanit Chana Henkin: Women as Rabbinic Decisors (March 6, 2007)
    Download Audio or Listen Online

Text

  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: The Torah as God’s Mind (October 2008)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Francis Nataf: Language, Metaphor and Meaning (January 23, 2007)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Francis Nataf: Will the Real Esav Please Stand Up – Textual Perspectives on the Christian West (March 27, 2006)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Francis Nataf: Avraham’s Ninth Test (June 24, 2007)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Zvi Grumet: David and Yehuda – Two Types of Teshuva (September 9, 2007)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Zvi Grumet: Who is In and who is Out of the Camp? Have the Rules Changed? (September 24, 2008)
    Download Audio or Listen Online

By Author

Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo

  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: Inaugural Lecture – Giur and Jewish Identity (October 9, 2007)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: Judaism and the Religious Error (August 15, 2005 – Summer Seminar)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: Giur and Jewish Non-Jews: Unusual Suggestions for a Serious Problem (Sept 24, 2008)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: A Great Jewish Idea (January 2008)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: The Future of Judaism (June 2007 – Elmau Conference)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: Sheloshim Lecture: Mrs Bertha Lopes Cardozo z.l. (February 13, 2007)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: Inaugural Lecture September 9, 2005 The Beit Midrash of Avraham Avinu
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: The Joy of Heresy (December 12 2007 – Winter Seminar)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: Hearing and Seeing (October 2004)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: Revelation and its Relevance (July 28, 2004 – Summer Seminar)
    Download Audio Part 1 or Listen Online Part 1
    Download Audio Part 2 or Listen Online Part 2
  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: Spinoza, Creativity and Torah (December 25, 2006)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: Satan and the Atheist on Judaism (June 2007 – Elmau Conference)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: Towards a New Halacha (September 13, 2008)
    Download Audio Part 1 or Listen Online Part 1
    Download Audio Part 2 or Listen Online Part 2
  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: Counting Jews and the Future of the State of Israel (October 2008)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: Why the Laws of Kashrut were Given too Late
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: God,Spinoza and the Kabala
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: The Mystery of Holiness: Kiddush Hashem and Chillul Hashem (May 2006)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: Are We Losing the Land of Israel?
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Prof. Daniel Sperber, Rabbi Yuval Cherlow, Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: Book Launch – “For the Love of Israel and the Jewish People” (May 26, 2008)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: The Torah as God’s Mind (October 2008)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: The Baal Teshuva Movement Revisited – Personal Reflections and Public Recommendations – Introduction (December 21, 2008)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: Baal Teshuvah Seminar Summation (December 21, 2008)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: Keynote Address 08-09 Student Leadership Training Program Culmination (June 21, 2009)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: The Future of Halacha
    Part 1 (March 24, 2009) Download Audio or Listen Online
    Part 2 (March 24, 2009) Download Audio or Listen Online
    Part 3 (May 26, 2009) Download Audio or Listen Online
    Part 4 (June 2, 2009) Download Audio or Listen Online
    Part 5 (June 9, 2009) Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: God’s Sake Whose Land are we occupying anyway? (April 26, 2009)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: Religious Authenticity, Conflict of Opinion, Halachic Diversity (May 5, 2009)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: Futuristic Judaism Contra Halacha, Pro Mitzvah (April 23, 2009)
    Download Audio Part 1 or Listen Online Part 1
    Download Audio Part 2 or Listen Online Part 2
  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: Judaism as a Complement (Nov 2009)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo: Are God and His Torah “fair”?
    Observations concerning evil and the morality of the Halacha (March 2010)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
Rabbi Francis Nataf

  • Rabbi Francis Nataf: Hegel, Rav Kook and the End of Jewish History (July 18, 2007)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Francis Nataf: Language, Metaphor and Meaning (January 23, 2007)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Francis Nataf: Will the Real Esav Please Stand Up – Textual Perspectives on the Christian West (March 27, 2006)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Francis Nataf: Avraham’s Ninth Test (June 24, 2007)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Francis Nataf: Censorship and the Information Age (June 23, 2003)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Francis Nataf: Command, Coercion and Modernity (January 1, 2006 – Winter Seminar)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Francis Nataf: The Halachic Enterprise (October 4, 2008)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Francis Nataf, Response: Gila Manolson: Fear Within, Fear Without – Why the Movement Could have Changed the World and Why it Didn’t (December 21, 2008)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Francis Nataf: Criteria and Parameters for the Legal Interpretation of Halacha
    Part 1 (January 20, 2009) Download Audio or Listen Online
    Part 2 (January 27, 2009) Download Audio or Listen Online
    Part 3 (February 3, 2009) Download Audio or Listen Online
    Part 4 (February 10, 2009) Download Audio or Listen Online
    Part 5 (February 17, 2009) Download Audio or Listen Online
    Part 6 (February 24, 2009) Download Audio or Listen Online
    Part 7 (March 3, 2009) Download Audio or Listen Online
    Part 8 (March 10, 2009) Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Francis Nataf: Pagans, Thieves and other Fathers-in-law (November 13, 2009)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Francis Nataf: Modern Islam and Modern Orthodoxy: Parallel Non Sequitur? (June 6, 2010)
    Download Audio or Listen Online

Prof. Yehudah Gellman

  • Prof. Yehudah Gellman: The Buddha and I: A Case-Study in a Neo-Rav Kook-ian Approach to World Religions (August 15, 2005 – Summer 05 Seminar)
    Download Audio or Listen Online

Prof. Menachem Marc Kellner

  • Prof. Menachem Marc Kellner: Who Decides Who is a Heretic? (December 12, 2007 – Winter Seminar)
    Download Audio or Listen Online

Rabbi Zvi Grumet

  • Rabbi Zvi Grumet: David and Yehuda – Two Types of Teshuva (September 9, 2007)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Zvi Grumet: Who is In and who is Out of the Camp? Have the Rules Changed? (September 24, 2008)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Rabbi Zvi Grumet: The “Other” in the Family (November 13, 2009)
    Download Audio or Listen Online

Rabbanit Chana Henkin

  • Rabbanit Chana Henkin: Women as Rabbinic Decisors (March 6, 2007)
    Download Audio or Listen Online

Dr. Elliott Malamet

  • Dr. Elliott Malamet: How to Teach the Alienated Child (December 16, 2008)
    Download Audio or Listen Online
  • Dr. Elliott Malamet, Response: Rabbi Dr. Eliezer Shore: The Baal Teshuvah and the Orthodox Community (December 21, 2008)
    Download Audio or Listen Online

Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks

  • Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks: After Modern Orthodoxy, Then What? (June 29, 2003)
    Download Audio or Listen Online

Rabbi Zvi Leshem

  • Rabbi Zvi Leshem: Meditational and Mystical Techniques of The Piaseczner Rav
    Part 1 (February 3, 2009) Download Audio or Listen Online
    Part 2 (February 10, 2009) Download Audio or Listen Online

Rabbi Dr. Elizer Shore

  • Rabbi Dr. Elizer Shore: Finding Soul in Jewish Studies (Nov 10, 2009)
    Download Audio or Listen Online

Professor William Kolbrener

  • Professor William Kolbrener: After the Death of Moses: Judaism and Fundamentalism (April 12, 2010)
    Download Audio or Listen Online

Professor Howard Wettstein

  • Professor Howard Wettstein: Religious doubt: A mode of religious life?
    (July 6, 2010)
    Download Audio or Listen Online

 

*Dedicated by Steve Russo and family for the complete recovery of Mary Russo (Miriam bat Yocheved) and in loving memory of Albert Russo (Avraham ben Allegra Simcha).

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