RABBI DAVID
SAMSON
famous for his weekly Torah insight on “Israeli Salad” at www.israelnntv.com (produced in cooperation with Machon Meir).
The Early Days
Illuminating the Scriptures
Long awaited - here they are: Lectures in Tanach and Basics of Judaism, held at Machon Meir, English Dept.
Time and Space: 5746-5748 (1986-1988; Prime Ministers at the time:
Yitzhak Shamir, Shimon Peres)
At the Center of the Universe (i.e. Jerusalem, Israel)
All lectures are in MP3-format.
For immediate online-listening, click the number at the beginning of the line.
(Download possible, but you figure this out yourselves).
6001A: The Problems of Bible-Translations; Tanach: An Introduction
6002A: Developmental Process 6000 years (3x2000)
6002B: King Sha'ul / "Ich bin a Gurnisht"
6003A* Hillel/Shammai, No Psak-Din from Heaven, Majority Rule, Maimonides and his contemporary Arab philosophers,Comparison Tora/modern Philosophy
6003B* To Whom does the Tora belong?
6004* The Judges; Powers of a King or Government, Deena demalkhuta deena, Legal Smuggling, Black Marketeering
6005A: Fundamentals of Judaism
6005B: The Importance of Wearing a Kippah, 2 Smugglers to Russia, Not to Hide One's Jewish Identity Even in the Face of Mortal Danger (->Rambam), Rabbi Amnon of Mainz, Suicide of Masada, Not to Build Jericho
6006A: Chronological overview until Kings period, the gap between Jewish and christian calendars, King Yannai under Etrogattack, Shimon ben Shetakh and the Sanhedrin, Yehoshua ben Perakhya and his most famous student (Sanh.107b, Sota 47a, Schabbat 104b - censored!)
6007A: The Real Messiah, Christianity and Islam
6010 A2: Yeshivot Ateret/Torat Cohanim/Torat Chayim in the Old City,
Rabbi Tsvi Yehuda Kook זצ"ל, Refusenik coming on Aliya;
Introduction into the Book of JUDGES
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(to be continued)