Table of Contents for High Holidays Study Sources Introduction... 1 Sin, Repentance and Redemption in Rabbinic and Mystical Literature: King David from Rabbinic Midrash to the Homilies of the Zohar - Rut Kara Kaniel... 2 Devekut: Intimacy with God in Rabbinic, Philosophical and Mystical Texts - Adam Afterman. 3 How Can I Pray What I Don t Believe: A Literary Approach to Prayer - Elie Kaunfer... 4 Practicing Faith - Melila Hellner-Eshed... 5 Introduction The sources listed below are excerpted from lectures given by Shalom Hartman Institute scholars in the last few years. The sources represent materials that can help the student or scholar develop his or her own independent study on the topics referenced by the titles. Many of the sources listed are under copyright, and therefore cannot be presented in full. However, virtually all of them can be found online in English and Hebrew.
Sin, Repentance and Redemption in Rabbinic and Mystical Literature: King David from Rabbinic Midrash to the Homilies of the Zohar - Rut Kara Kaniel 1. II Samuel 11 2. Psalms 51:1-20 3. Babylonian Talmud Tractate Sanhedrin 107a 4. Babylonian Talmud Tractate Shabbath 56a 5. Babylonian Talmud Tractate Sanhedrin 98b 6. Palestinian Talmud Tractate Berakhot 17a, 2:4 7. Babylonian Talmud Tractate Moed Katan 16b 8. Babylonian Talmud Tractate Pesachim 117b 9. Third Blessing after reading the Haftara
Devekut: Intimacy with God in Rabbinic, Philosophical and Mystical Texts - Adam Afterman 1. Devarim 10:20 2. Devarim 11:22 3. Devarim 30:20 4. Selections from Philo 5. Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Ketubot 111b 6. Sifrei, Piska 49-50 7. Midrash Bereshit Rabbah, Chapter 14 8. Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, Book One: Knowledge, Chapter 10 9. Maimonides, The Guide of the Perplexed III: 51 10. Melila Hellner-Eshed, A River Flows From Eden 11. Introduction to Sefer HaZohar, 1:8a 12. Daniel Abrams, "Ten Psychoanalytic Aphorisms on the Kabbalah, Chapter 3
How Can I Pray What I Don t Believe: A Literary Approach to Prayer - Elie Kaunfer 1. Reuven Kimelman, The Shema Liturgy Kenishta (2001) p. 28 2. Catherine Madsen, The Bones Reassemble: Reconstituting Liturgical Speech (Colorado: The Davies Group, 2005) p. 125 3. Abudraham HaShalem, p. 6 4. The First Blessing of the Amidah: 1. Exodus 3:5-6, 15- Context of First Blessing 2. Mekhilta de Rebbe Yishmael Bo 16- Midrashic Link to First Blessing 3. Midrash Tanhuma Vayera 1- Midrashic Link to the Number of Blessings 4. Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Megillah 25a 5. Deuteronomy 10:17-19 6. Jeremiah 32:18 7. Daniel 9:4
Practicing Faith - Melila Hellner-Eshed 1. God in the Thick Cloud-Nachman of Braslav, Likutei Moharan 1: 115 2. "For One Who Doesn't Believe" Leah Goldberg 3. "In Those Moments" Hamutal Bar-Yosef 4. Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira Conscious Community 5. THE THIRST by Hillel Zeitlin (1871-1942) 6. "You Hid Your Soul" Zelda 7. Nachman of Braslav, Likutei Moharan I 33-b 8. "I Believe" Shaul Tchernichovsky 9. Jerusalem Talmud, Berachot 7:3; 11c - How Mighty and Awesome is God? 10. Geniza Fragments, Y. Luger, The First Blessing - Alternate Version 11. Genesis 14:17-24; 15:1-8 - Whose God is Being Praised? 12. A Literary-Intertext Approach to Prayer 13. Abraham J. Heschel, Man s Quest for God, p. 78, 81, 26-27, 83 14. Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Nedarim 32a-Why Were the Jews Enslaved? 15. Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Berachot 13a-Why is it Avraham not Avram? 16. Bereishit Rabbah 43:7-Who is the Creator of Heaven and Earth?