Rabbi David Sedley

A repository of written, audio and video Torah classes given by Rabbi David Sedley

Month: December 2008

  • Greek Wisdom mp3 shiur

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    Here is a shiur I gave last night (the first night of Chanukah) at Darche Noam on “Greek Wisdom and Kaballah”. I argue in favour of learning science (at a time which is not day and not night) in order to come to know G-d, and to come to love and fear Him. This is… Read more

  • Avi’s Bar Mitzvah speech

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    Well we are half way there. Tonight is Avi’s 13th Hebrew birthday, making him a ‘man’ in Jewish law and eligible to wear a big black hat! We had a maleve malka for his school class which was really nice. They are such nice kids, and the principal and class teacher are wonderful. Here is… Read more

  • Livni speaks like Kahane!

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    Only yesterday Tzippi Livni, head of Kadima, was chastising Likud for electing Feiglin to the number 20 slot on their electoral roll. Apparently were the ‘right wing’ of Likud to become the ruling party there would be no further hope for peace (because apparently she thinks that the ‘centrist/left wing’ government of which she is… Read more

  • Ben Franklin and Cheshbon HaNefesh

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    I saw on the news the other day that Joe Satriani (one of my all time favourite musicians) is suing Coldplay for ripping off his song “If I could fly”. Apparently Coldplay’s song “Viva La Vida”. I’m no expert, but listen to this and make up your own mind: Over Shabbos we were discussing the… Read more