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Talmud: Structure of the SugyaTalmud with TosafotTalmud with RishonimTanakh with RashiTanakh with Mikraot GedolotAdvanced Tanakh ExegesisMahshavah I (Jewish Thought)Mahshavah II (Jewish Thought)Mahshavah III (Jewish Thought)Topics in HalakhahHasidutConversion, Apostasy and the Nature of Jewish IdentityShabbat in the Ten CommandmentsLiturgy SkillsParashat Hashavua: In God's WildernessJudaism as a Spiritual PracticeIndependent Beit MidrashSihahShiur Klali (Integrated Communal Learning)Advanced Midrash Text: Shir HaShirim RabbahBasic Torah Reading

Shabbat in the Ten Commandments

Taught by: Eric Fisher
Monday, 5:15-6:30pm (July)

This class will look at Shabbat as it appears in the two versions of the Ten Commandments (Exodus and Deuteronomy).  We will explore the rich traditions of rabbinic interpretation that brought unity to these two accounts of Shabbat, including Talmudic, medieval and hasidic sources. This class will also provide occasion to reflect upon the tension between critical and traditional approaches to the issue of multiple versions of events in the Torah.