Collections Library
These collections are curated from the larger Torah Online Library. Here you will find some of our most popular content; mini-courses organized around a single idea or a thinker; and the best work of each of Hadar's faculty members.
Featured Collections
Avital Hochstein's Divrei Torah
Curated by Avital Hochstein
Ethan Tucker's Halakhic Essays
Curated by Ethan Tucker
Shai Held's Divrei Torah
Curated by Shai Held
Introduction:
I am so honored to be writing the Mechon Hadar weekly Divrei Torah for 5777/2016-2017. I will focus on listening to the voices that appear between the lines (the white fire behind the black fire, if you will) and what these voices are truly saying to us about relationships and...
Ethan Tucker this year has shared a weekly essay exploring various topics in Jewish law and values. These essays jump off the weekly Torah reading and tackle a range of issues in areas such as gender, sexuality, Jewish identity, food practices, and Shabbat in the modern world. Much of this writing...
What do I do when what I understand the halakhah to be telling me contradicts what I understand my ethics to demand? How can they be seen as complimentary instead of contradictory?
Want to know what Mechon Hadar is all about? This collection showcases some of the most important Torah we have to share.
Missed an event at Mechon Hadar? You can find the recording on this page. Looking for the most recent podcasts? Right here as well.
Looking for something that you can't find? Let us know.
Archive
Want to catch up on the previous divrei Torah? The complete archive—to listen to and to read—is to the left of this panel.
Browse Mechon Hadar's weekly divrei Torah archive by parashah:
Bereishit
Shemot
VaYikra
Noah
Va'Era
Tzav...
You can see here Mechon Hadar's new, free, bi-monthly, tefillah e-publication!
With content from R. Elie Kaunfer, Dena Weiss, and Joey Weisenberg, each issue will focus on a particular prayer or section of tefillah.
These digital publications contains:
Recordings of new melodies
Tips...
Mechon Hadar is happy to host Responsa Radio, a joint project with Jewish Public Media and the Center for Jewish Law and Values.
Ever wanted to know the answer to some deep and challenging questions in halakhah (Jewish law)? Join Avi Killip interviewing Ethan Tucker with...
Want to learn about some key issues in Jewish law/halakhah in the modern world? Here is where you can find them.
What happens if I don't believe the words that I pray? Can I still say them? Mechon Hadar offers a unique approach to prayers: the literay intertext model. Learn more about this here.
Fifty years ago, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote: "Few of us seem to realize how insidious, how radical, how universal an evil racism is. Few of us realize that racism is man’s gravest threat to man, the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason, the maximum of cruelty for a minimum of thinking...
What do some of the great Jewish philosophers say about God, prayer and covenant? Find out that and more in this collection.
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