Monday, March 13, 2006

Hartman Seminar Information

To Hartman Participants
March 17, 2006

Here are the questions that go with the texts in the study guide for Moshe Halbertal's 3rd presentation on March 19th entitled: The Holy and the Ethical.
Please come at 9:00am.
Please call 206 852-9581 if you have trouble getting into the building.

HEVRUTA GUIDE: The Holy and the Ethical
March 19th Session with Moshe Halbertal

1. Read Leviticus 19:2 (not included in the materials. Have bi-lingual Bibles avaialable) and the surrounding verses. What is the context? What does it mean to be holy according to the Biblical verse?

2. Read Deuteronomy 6:18. What is that which is "right and good" according to the Biblical context?

3. Read the Ramban on Leviticus 19:2. How does he understand holiness?
How has he expanded the interpretation of the verse?

4. Read the Ramban on Deuteronomy 6:18. How, according the Ramban, should one interpret the Biblical verse? What idea of the ethical emerges from his interpretation?

Enjoy your learning

Shabbat Shalom,
Rabbi Dov Gartenberg

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