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The Ḥabura

The Ḥaburawww.thehabura.com
We are a virtual and physical Bet Midrash with international membership dedicated to striving to know God by embracing the world through the lens of Torah.We learn and teach Torah as a lens through which we view and interact with God's world. This approach is not exclusive to, but is central and predominant in, the classical Sephardi mesorah that we uphold.We are proud to teach worldly students from across four continents and who work in a variety of professions.https://www.thehabura.com/

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Episodes

Exploring the World of Rabbi Shemtob Gaguine - Dr Roy Shasha

We are an online and global Bet Midrash with international students, striving to know God by embracing the world through the lens of Torah. Web: www.TheHabura.com WhatsApp: https://chat.whatsapp.com/LAurH2Lw3y92gF31PhzN42 Instagram: @TheHabura Facebook: The Habura A project of the Senior Rabbi's Office (www.seniorrabbi.com), S&P Sephardi Community of the UK, Montefiore Endowment, and Dangoor Education. #torah #talmud #yeshiva #betmidrash #sephardi #sepharadi #sephardic #sefardi #sefardic #ra...

Oct 12, 202254 min

Halakhot of Yom Kippur - Rabbi Joseph Dweck | TheHabura.com

We are an online and global Bet Midrash with international students, striving to know God by embracing the world through the lens of Torah. Web: www.TheHabura.com WhatsApp: https://chat.whatsapp.com/LAurH2Lw3y9... Instagram: @TheHabura Facebook: The Habura A project of the Senior Rabbi's Office (www.seniorrabbi.com), S&P Sephardi Community of the UK, Montefiore Endowment, and Dangoor Education. #torah #talmud #yeshiva #betmidrash #sephardi #sepharadi #sephardic #sefardi #sefardic #rambam Hos...

Sep 29, 202252 min

Teshuba: how do we get back on track? - Senior Rabbi Joseph Dweck

We are an online and global Bet Midrash with international students, striving to know God by embracing the world through the lens of Torah. Web: www.TheHabura.com WhatsApp: https://chat.whatsapp.com/LAurH2Lw3y92gF31PhzN42 Instagram: @TheHabura Facebook: The Habura A project of the Senior Rabbi's Office (www.seniorrabbi.com), S&P Sephardi Community of the UK, Montefiore Endowment, and Dangoor Education. #torah #talmud #yeshiva #betmidrash #sephardi #sepharadi #sephardic #sefardi #sefardic #ra...

Sep 05, 20221 hr 4 min

Halakha & The Bitcoin Revolution - Rabbi Brendan Stern

We are an online and global Bet Midrash with international students, striving to know God by embracing the world through the lens of Torah. Web: www.TheHabura.com WhatsApp: https://chat.whatsapp.com/LAurH2Lw3y9... Instagram: @TheHabura Facebook: The Habura A project of the Senior Rabbi's Office (www.seniorrabbi.com), S&P Sephardi Community of the UK, Montefiore Endowment, and Dangoor Education. #torah #talmud #yeshiva #betmidrash #sephardi #sepharadi #sephardic #sefardi #sefardic #rambam Hos...

Aug 01, 20221 hr 3 min

The Extremes of Judaism - Rabbi Joseph Dweck & Rabbi Jeffrey Saks in Conversation

Explore our Membership features at www.TheHabura.com/join We are an online and global Bet Midrash with international students, striving to know God by embracing the world through the lens of Torah. Web: www.TheHabura.com WhatsApp: https://chat.whatsapp.com/LAurH2Lw3y92gF31PhzN42 Instagram: @TheHabura Facebook: The Habura A project of the Senior Rabbi's Office (www.seniorrabbi.com), S&P Sephardi Community of the UK, Montefiore Endowment, and Dangoor Education. #torah #talmud #yeshiva #betmidr...

Jul 25, 20221 hr

Evil & Suffering in Judaism - Rabbi Joseph Dweck & Rabbi Dr Samuel Lebens in Conversation

Explore our Membership features at www.TheHabura.com/join We are an online and global Bet Midrash with international students, striving to know God by embracing the world through the lens of Torah. Web: www.TheHabura.com WhatsApp: https://chat.whatsapp.com/LAurH2Lw3y92gF31PhzN42 Instagram: @TheHabura Facebook: The Habura A project of the Senior Rabbi's Office (www.seniorrabbi.com), S&P Sephardi Community of the UK, Montefiore Endowment, and Dangoor Education. #torah #talmud #yeshiva #betmidr...

Jul 17, 202256 min

When Sepharadim Met Ashkenazim: Philosophy & Kabbalah - Rabbi Joseph Dweck & Prof Moshe Halbertal

Go to TheHabura.com/join to learn Torah anytime, anywhere. We are an online and global Bet Midrash with international students, striving to know God by embracing the world through the lens of Torah. Web: www.TheHabura.com WhatsApp: https://chat.whatsapp.com/LAurH2Lw3y92gF31PhzN42 Instagram: @TheHabura Facebook: The Habura A project of the Senior Rabbi's Office (www.seniorrabbi.com), S&P Sephardi Community of the UK, Montefiore Endowment, and Dangoor Education. #torah #talmud #yeshiva #betmid...

Jul 11, 20221 hr 10 min

The Links between the Geonim and Sepharadim - Professor Robert Brody

We are an online and global Bet Midrash with international students, striving to know God by embracing the world through the lens of Torah. Web: www.TheHabura.com WhatsApp: https://chat.whatsapp.com/LAurH2Lw3y92gF31PhzN42 Instagram: @TheHabura Facebook: The Habura A project of the Senior Rabbi's Office (www.seniorrabbi.com), S&P Sephardi Community of the UK, Montefiore Endowment, and Dangoor Education. #torah #talmud #yeshiva #betmidrash #sephardi #sepharadi #sephardic #sefardi #sefardic #ra...

Jul 04, 20221 hr

Taking Breaks from Torah Study - Senior Rabbi Dweck

Rabbi Joseph Dweck is the Senior Rabbi of the S&P Sephardi Community of the UK - the country's oldest Jewish community established in 1656. He was elected to this position in 2013, with a 270–4 vote, a margin believed to be the largest in UK synagogue history. Rabbi Dweck is American born, and studied in Jerusalem at Yeshiva Hazon Ovadia under the tutelage of former Sephardi Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. Rabbi Dweck received his rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Ovadia Yosef under the auspices of t...

Jun 22, 202241 min

HaRambam's Approach to Aggada: Revisited - R. Chaim Rapoport

Rabbi Chaim Rapoport, born in Manchester, England, attended the Yeshivot of Manchester, Gateshead, Torat Emet in Jerusalem and the central Lubavitch Yeshivah in New York. We are an online and global Bet Midrash with international students, striving to know God by embracing the world through the lens of Torah. Web: www.TheHabura.com WhatsApp: https://chat.whatsapp.com/LAurH2Lw3y92gF31PhzN42 Instagram: @TheHabura Facebook: The Habura A project of the Senior Rabbi's Office (www.seniorrabbi.com), S&...

Jun 15, 20221 hr 9 min

When Spinoza Met the Rabbis: Two Encounters that Changed the World - R. Dr. Harvey Belovski

We are an online and global Bet Midrash with international students, striving to know God by embracing the world through the lens of Torah. Web: www.TheHabura.com WhatsApp: https://chat.whatsapp.com/LAurH2Lw3y92gF31PhzN42 Instagram: @TheHabura Facebook: The Habura A project of the Senior Rabbi's Office (www.seniorrabbi.com), S&P Sephardi Community of the UK, Montefiore Endowment, and Dangoor Education. #torah #talmud #yeshiva #betmidrash #sephardi #sepharadi #sephardic #sefardi #sefardic #ra...

Jun 09, 202256 min

Shabuot: Why Must There Be an Oral Law? - Rabbi Joseph Dweck

Rabbi Joseph Dweck is the Senior Rabbi of the S&P Sephardi Community of the UK - the country's oldest Jewish community established in 1656. Rabbi Dweck is American born, and studied in Jerusalem at Yeshiva Hazon Ovadia under the tutelage of former Sephardi Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. Rabbi Dweck received his rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Ovadia Yosef under the auspices of the Sephardic Rabbinical College of Brooklyn, led by Rabbi Shimon Alouf and Rabbi Harold Sutton. He has a Master of Arts D...

Jun 01, 20221 hr 1 min

Creation & Peshat - Rabbi Yosef Bitton

Join our WhatsApp group to stay updated on our classes, journals, and books: https://chat.whatsapp.com/LAurH2Lw3y92gF31PhzN42 The Habura is an online and global Bet Midrash with international students, striving to know God by embracing the world through the lens of Torah. Web: www.TheHabura.com Instagram: @TheHabura Facebook: The Habura A project of the Senior Rabbi's Office (www.seniorrabbi.com), S&P Sephardi Community of the UK, Montefiore Endowment, and Dangoor Education. #torah #talmud #...

May 23, 20221 hr 6 min

How do Sepharadim study Tanakh compared to Ashkenazim? - Rabbi Joshua Maroof

Rabbi Joshua Maroof received his rabbinic ordination from Yeshiva Bnei Torah in Far Rockaway, NY, his BA with Honors in Psychology from SUNY Stony Brook, and his Masters in Educational Psychology from the CUNY Graduate Center. He has been a member of the rabbinic staff of the United Mashadi Jewish Community (UMJCA) for the past six years, helping meet the needs of its approximately 6500 congregants on a daily basis. In this capacity Rabbi Maroof currently serves as the spiritual leader of one of...

May 16, 20221 hr 11 min

Can Decrees of an Earlier Bet Din be Nullified? בטל טעם בטל גזירה - Rabbi Yitzhak Berdugo

We are an online and global Bet Midrash with international students, striving to know God by embracing the world through the lens of Torah. Web: www.TheHabura.com WhatsApp: https://chat.whatsapp.com/LAurH2Lw3y9... Instagram: @TheHabura Facebook: The Habura A project of the Senior Rabbi's Office (www.seniorrabbi.com), S&P Sephardi Community of the UK, Montefiore Endowment, and Dangoor Education. #torah #talmud #yeshiva #betmidrash #sephardi #sepharadi #sephardic #sefardi #sefardic #rambam Hos...

May 10, 20221 hr 17 min

Jews of Iran and their Hakhamim - Avishai Shraga

We are an online and global Bet Midrash with international students, striving to know God by embracing the world through the lens of Torah. Web: www.TheHabura.com WhatsApp: https://chat.whatsapp.com/LAurH2Lw3y9... Instagram: @TheHabura Facebook: The Habura A project of the Senior Rabbi's Office (www.seniorrabbi.com), S&P Sephardi Community of the UK, Montefiore Endowment, and Dangoor Education. #torah #talmud #yeshiva #betmidrash #sephardi #sepharadi #sephardic #sefardi #sefardic #rambam Hos...

Apr 26, 20221 hr 7 min

The Spanish Expulsion: What Really Happened? - From Sepharad to S&P - R Shalom Morris

We are an online and global Bet Midrash with international students, striving to know God by embracing the world through the lens of Torah. Web: www.TheHabura.com WhatsApp: https://chat.whatsapp.com/LAurH2Lw3y9... Instagram: @TheHabura Facebook: The Habura A project of the Senior Rabbi's Office (www.seniorrabbi.com), S&P Sephardi Community of the UK, Montefiore Endowment, and Dangoor Education. #torah #talmud #yeshiva #betmidrash #sephardi #sepharadi #sephardic #sefardi #sefardic #rambam Hos...

Apr 07, 202258 min

Sir Moses and the Spanish & Portuguese Jews - Rabbi Joseph Dweck & Rabbi Dr Abraham Levy

We are an online and global Bet Midrash with international students, striving to know God by embracing the world through the lens of Torah. Web: www.TheHabura.com WhatsApp: https://chat.whatsapp.com/LAurH2Lw3y92gF31PhzN42 Instagram: @TheHabura Facebook: The Habura A project of the Senior Rabbi's Office (www.seniorrabbi.com), S&P Sephardi Community of the UK, Montefiore Endowment, and Dangoor Education. #torah #talmud #yeshiva #betmidrash #sephardi #sepharadi #sephardic #sefardi #sefardic #ra...

Mar 30, 202232 min

HaRambam and Today's Medical Challenges - R Dr Edward Reichman

Edward Reichman is a Professor of Emergency Medicine and Professor in the Division of Education and Bioethics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where he teaches both medicine and Jewish medical ethics. He received his rabbinic ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University and writes and lectures internationally in the field of Jewish medical ethics. He has been a mentor of the Medical Ethics Society of Yeshiva University since its inception. His re...

Mar 23, 20221 hr 20 min

Torah & Worldly Wisdom - Hakham Eliyahu Benamozegh's Defence - Rabbi Dr Marc Shapiro

We are an online and global Bet Midrash with international students, striving to know God by embracing the world through the lens of Torah. Web: www.TheHabura.com WhatsApp: https://chat.whatsapp.com/LAurH2Lw3y92gF31PhzN42 Instagram: @TheHabura Facebook: The Habura A project of the Senior Rabbi's Office (www.seniorrabbi.com), S&P Sephardi Community of the UK, Montefiore Endowment, and Dangoor Education. #torah #talmud #yeshiva #betmidrash #sephardi #sepharadi #sephardic #sefardi #sefardic #ra...

Mar 22, 20221 hr 10 min

Torah & Literalism - Rabbi Hayyim Angel

Source sheet: https://www.thehabura.com/_files/ugd/4959e2_0184f623f94f4047ac37172bd7efe898.pdf. Join us at www.TheHabura.com We are a virtual and physical Bet Midrash with international membership, striving to know God by embracing the world through the lens of Torah. JOURNAL: www.TheHabura.com/journal SHIURIM: www.TheHabura.com/shiurim www.TheHabura.com Instagram: @TheHabura Facebook: The Habura A project of the Montefiore Endowment, Dangoor Education, and the S&P Sephardi Community of the ...

Mar 15, 202255 min

How Does Olam Haba Relate to Everyday Life? - HaRambam's Introduction to Pereq Heleq (Part 3) - Rabbi Joseph Dweck

Join us at www.TheHabura.com We are a virtual and physical Bet Midrash with international membership, striving to know God by embracing the world through the lens of Torah. JOURNAL: www.TheHabura.com/journal SHIURIM: www.TheHabura.com/shiurim www.TheHabura.com Instagram: @TheHabura Facebook: The Habura A project of the Montefiore Endowment, Dangoor Education, and the S&P Sephardi Community of the United Kingdom. #torah #talmud #yeshiva #betmidrash #sephardi #sepharadi #sephardic #sefardi #se...

Mar 10, 20221 hr 4 min

Torah & Archaeology - Rabbi Hayyim Angel

Source sheet: https://f42ec27d-f950-4ed6-8459-47449... . Join us at www.TheHabura.com We are a virtual and physical Bet Midrash with international membership, striving to know God by embracing the world through the lens of Torah. JOURNAL: www.TheHabura.com/journal SHIURIM: www.TheHabura.com/shiurim www.TheHabura.com Instagram: @TheHabura Facebook: The Habura A project of the Montefiore Endowment, Dangoor Education, and the S&P Sephardi Community of the United Kingdom. #torah #talmud #yeshiva...

Mar 08, 202258 min

Yisrael & The World: Integrate or Isolate? - Rabbi Joseph Dweck

SOURCESHEET: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/387507... Join us at www.TheHabura.com We are a virtual and physical Bet Midrash with international membership, striving to know God by embracing the world through the lens of Torah. JOURNAL: www.TheHabura.com/journal SHIURIM: www.TheHabura.com/shiurim www.TheHabura.com Instagram: @TheHabura Facebook: The Habura A project of the Montefiore Endowment, Dangoor Education, and the S&P Sephardi Community of the United Kingdom. #torah #talmud #yeshiva #b...

Mar 03, 20221 hr 20 min

Tanakh & Superstition - Rabbi Hayyim Angel

Rabbi Hayyim Angel, who serves as National Scholar for the Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals, teaches advanced Tanakh courses to undergraduates and rabbinical students at Yeshiva University, and lectures widely. He received his B.A. in Jewish Studies from Yeshiva College, his M.A. in Bible from the Bernard Revel Graduate School, his M.S. in Jewish Education from the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education, and his Rabbinical Ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary o...

Feb 28, 202256 min

Three Ways People Understand Ḥazal - HaRambam's Introduction to Pereq Heleq (Part 2) - Rabbi Joseph Dweck

Join us at www.TheHabura.com We are a virtual and physical Bet Midrash with international membership, striving to know God by embracing the world through the lens of Torah. JOURNAL: www.TheHabura.com/journal SHIURIM: www.TheHabura.com/shiurim www.TheHabura.com Instagram: @TheHabura Facebook: The Habura A project of the Montefiore Endowment, Dangoor Education, and the S&P Sephardi Community of the United Kingdom. #torah #talmud #yeshiva #betmidrash #sephardi #sepharadi #sephardic #sefardi #se...

Feb 24, 20221 hr 13 min

Olam Haba - HaRambam's Introduction to Pereq Heleq (Part 1) - Rabbi Joseph Dweck

Join us at www.TheHabura.com We are a virtual and physical Bet Midrash with international membership, striving to know God by embracing the world through the lens of Torah. JOURNAL: www.TheHabura.com/journal SHIURIM: www.TheHabura.com/shiurim www.TheHabura.com Instagram: @TheHabura Facebook: The Habura A project of the Montefiore Endowment, Dangoor Education, and the S&P Sephardi Community of the United Kingdom. #torah #talmud #yeshiva #betmidrash #sephardi #sepharadi #sephardic #sefardi #se...

Feb 17, 20221 hr 5 min

The Cairo Geniza: Jewish Medieval Life in the Middle East - Dr Benjamin Outhwaite of Cambridge University

Dr Ben Outhwaite has been Head of the Genizah Research Unit in Cambridge University Library since 2006. Dr Outhwaite received a B.A. in Hebrew Studies and an M.Phil. in Medieval Hebrew literature from Christ's College, Cambridge. His Cambridge Ph.D. thesis, on the grammatical description of Hebrew letters in the Genizah Join us at www.TheHabura.com We are a virtual and physical Bet Midrash with international membership, striving to know God by embracing the world through the lens of Torah. JOURN...

Feb 16, 20221 hr 30 min

Shadal: How Did He Approach Torah Commentary (Part 2) - JJ Kimche

Samuel David Luzzatto (22 August 1800 – 30 September 1865), also known by the Hebrew acronym Shadal (שד״ל), was an Italian Jewish scholar, poet, and a member of the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement. JJ Kimche is a student, teacher, researcher, editor, ghostwriter, and translator, currently residing in Cambridge, Massachusetts. J.J. is a PhD candidate in the field of modern religious philosophy at Harvard University, where he specialises in the intersection between Modern European philosophy a...

Feb 13, 202257 min

Shadal: The Man and his Works (Part 1) - JJ Kimche

Samuel David Luzzatto (22 August 1800 – 30 September 1865), also known by the Hebrew acronym Shadal (שד״ל), was an Italian Jewish scholar, poet, and a member of the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement. JJ Kimche is a student, teacher, researcher, editor, ghostwriter, and translator, currently residing in Cambridge, Massachusetts. J.J. is a PhD candidate in the field of modern religious philosophy at Harvard University, where he specialises in the intersection between Modern European philosophy a...

Feb 07, 202258 min
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