e-TiM: Online Program
e-TiM: Halachic Responses to the State of Israel

Thursday, April 23   
11:00am-12:00pm EST     
Halacha and Religious Customs Change in a Jewish State 
The impact of the Jewish state on Jewish prayer and custom
 

Thursday, April 30  
11:00am-12:00pm EST  
Tzahal and the Ethics of Warfare 
Real (Historical) Dilemmas During the Israeli Wars

Thursday, May 7
11:00am-12:00pm EST
How Can an Irreligious Government Be Legitimate? 
Religious responses to the Jewish state

Thursday, May 14   
11:00am-12:00pm EST       
Conversion Today in Israel 
Authority in a Jewish State: Who is fit to rule?

Thursday, May 21   
11:00am-12:00pm EST       
Keeping the lights on: Can a State be "Shomer Shabbat"? 
 

Dates

April 23, 2020 May 21, 2020

Time

Thursdays 7:00 AM EDT

Topics

Israel

Class Audio

Conversion Today in Israel

May 17, 2020

Rabbi Aviad Tabory

Program: e-TiM: Halachic Responses to the State of Israel

Source Material: 16c_geirut.pdf

Halacha and Religious Customs Change in a Jewish State

April 24, 2020

Rabbi Aviad Tabory

Program: e-TiM: Halachic Responses to the State of Israel

Source Material: mdynh_-_challenges.pdf

How Can an Irreligious Government Be Legitimate? 

May 11, 2020

Rabbi Aviad Tabory

Program: e-TiM: Halachic Responses to the State of Israel

Source Material: mqvmv_shl_mlk_bm_yshrl.pdf

Keeping the lights on: Can a State be “Shomer Shabbat”?

May 21, 2020

Rabbi Aviad Tabory

Program: e-TiM: Halachic Responses to the State of Israel

Source Material: keeping_shabbat_in_a_state_.pdf

Tzahal and the Ethics of Warfare

April 30, 2020

Rabbi Aviad Tabory

Program: e-TiM: Halachic Responses to the State of Israel

Source Material: challenges_within_the_idf.pdf

Source Material

Source sheet week 1 (PDF)

Source sheet week 2 (PDF)

Source sheet week 3 (PDF)

Source sheet week 4 (PDF)

Source sheet week 5 (PDF)

Meet the speaker

Rabbi Aviad Tabory

R abbi Aviad Tabory is the author of State of Halakha: Israel's History in Jewish Law (Maggid 2023). Rabbi Aviad Tabory studied for seven years at the hesder yeshivot of Ohr  Etzion and Har Etzion (Gush) in Israel. In those years he served in a tank unit of the Israeli army and studied for the Smicha tests of the Israeli Rabbinate. He received his degree in Jewish education from Herzog College, and is a graduate of Amiel - the rabbinical training…

Rabbi Aviad Tabory bio & resources