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48:35
The Talmudic Concept of Agency (48:35)
Discover the Talmudic concept of agency and two types of legal agents. When can a principal recall an agent, and when is it too late? When are our actions on someone else's behalf effective, and when are they not? An in depth study of Talmud Gittin 11b. This class took place at the 10th annual National Jewish Retreat
Rabbi Zalman Wilschanski (3)
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43:41
Heinrich Heine (Poet) (43:41)
Dr. Henry Abramson (90)
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5:09
Captain Alfred Dreyfus (5:09)
Date: October 9, 1859, birthday of Alfred Dreyfus Wrongly accused of espionage, Captain Alfred Dreyfus was sentenced to Devil's Island on the basis of remarkably tenuous evidence. Many critics, including the famous writer Emile Zola, argued that Dreyfus was unfairly charged simply because he was a Jew in the French army
Series: This Week in Jewish History
Dr. Henry Abramson (90)
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Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch and the Development of Modern Orthodoxy (58:44)
2/3s of Berlin Jews converted to Lutheranism. In the 1800s baptism was their ticket to European culture. Dr. Henry Abramson describes European society and what led the German Jews to step away from their Jewish practices and into secular society
Dr. Henry Abramson (90)