Course Description :

The Talmud is often compared to the ocean, for its seemingly endless quantity of subject matter as well as its depth of nuanced discussions and arguments. We will read and discuss four “dilemmas” found within the pages of Talmud and in each case, ask of ourselves if we would have acted any differently.

Easy answers?  No…for this is Talmud!

1. Rabbi Eliezer’s Oven/The Oven of Achnai (Baba Metziah 59a/b)
2. Kamtza/Bar Kamtza (Gitten 55b/56a)
3. Rabbi Ḥanina ben Teradyon/Executioner
4. Who Goes To Heaven? (Avot/ Sanhedrin. 10:1; Taanit 22a; Avodah

Zara 17b/18a)

1. Prison Guard

1. Jesters

MONDAYS, 10:00-11:30am (EST)

Dates: June 13, 20, 27

About the Instructor:

Rabbi Norman Lipson moved to Miami, FL in 1955. Following graduation from the University of Miami, he entered the Hebrew-Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, Ohio and was ordained in 1972. He has served on the national staff of the Anti-Defamation League and as spiritual leader of congregations in Mississippi, Texas, Hollywood, FL and most recently Temple Dor Dorim in Weston, where he was the Founding Rabbi, and now is Emeritus. For years, Rabbi Lipson’s been a sought-after teacher in Broward and luckily for us, now “brings his talents to North Dade/Aventura. He is married and the proud grandfather of four brilliant grandchildren (direct quote :-).