Author: Jarek Lodzinski

May
03

PROFESSOR MELISSA RAPHAEL: WHAT’S JEWISH ABOUT JEWISH ART? – Free LBC Lehrhaus Talk

Many commentators today would be wary of claiming that modern Jewish art has any exclusively Jewish religious and stylistic characteristics. Instead, they would argue that

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Nov
02

ISRAEL’S PERPETUAL ELECTIONS: WHAT NOW? – Rabbi Lea Mühlstein – Watch the recording of this talk

On 1 November, Israelis will be heading back to the polls for the fifth time in under four years. In this session led by Rabbi Lea Mühlstein, we will try to understand why Israel has so many elections and how the Israeli electoral system works. And then we will attempt to look ahead […]

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Oct
18

LBC Lehrhaus – Autumn 2022 programme

Our programme for autumn 2022 is now available. Sign up and learn with our outstanding faculty and specialist teachers.
Please click on this link: https://lbc.ac.uk/…/additional-learning…/lehrhaus/
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New language courses at LBC Lehrhaus!

We are happy to announce that we have added new language courses! As well as Biblical and Modern Hebrew, and Classical Greek you can now learn Yiddish and Aramaic with us at Lehrhaus!

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Jan
26

Rabbi Mark Goldsmith: How far Should a Jew go to Sell a Used Car?

RABBI MARK GOLDSMITH
HOW FAR SHOULD A JEW GO TO SELL A USED CAR?
4-week live on-line course

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Jan
13

Rabbi Mark Solomon: BROKEN VESSELS: EVIL, SUFFERING AND REDEMPTION IN KABBALAH AND HASIDIC THOUGHT

For the great rationalist Maimonides, evil does not really exist – in fact, it is by definition non-existence, the absence of good and the absence of being. The theosophical kabbalah, which arose in the generations after Maimonides, took a radically different path in understanding the nature of evil. Since all being flows from the divine, [...]
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Jan
05

Rabbi Professor Jonathan Magonet: David becomes King

The Book of Samuel is one of the masterpieces of world literature. While the overall story can be read and appreciated in translation, the full richness and subtleties of the narrative deserve spending time with the Hebrew text.

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Jan
03

IS YOUR SPOUSE REALLY A DEMON?

Marriages between humans and demons are not unheard of in Jewish tradition. From Queen Sheba in Midrash to the Ashkenazi medieval Mayse vom Worms, to the modern-day British Neil Gaiman’s Lucifer. Jews have always asked themselves if indeed they married the devil’s spawn, or is it all just in their heads?

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