Pirkei Avot, Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Navi, Monday, December 19, 2011

New Class on Pirke Avot with Rabbi Evan Hoffman

PIRKE AVOT AS

CLASSICAL JEWISH HISTORY

Rabbi Evan Hoffman

Great Neck Synagogue,

Starting Tuesday January 3, at 8:30 pm

15 week term

PirkeAvot is more than just an ethical treatise.  Each Mishnah tells us something about the life and times of its author.  Hidden between the lines is the history of the Jewish People from the beginnings of the Second Temple period through the end of Tannaitic Period (3rdcentury CE).I. Chain of Tradition

II. Men of the Great Assembly

III. Simon the Righteous and the Ascendancy of Torah

IV. Sadducees and Pharisees

V. Maccabean Revolution and Hasmonean Dynasty

VI. John Hyrcanus and Alexander Yannai

VII. Civil War and Roman Takeover

VIII. Hillel, Shamai and Herod

IX. The Temple’s Final Days

X. Yochanan ben Zakai and the Survival of Torah

XI. RabbanGamliel Asserts his Authority

XII. Jewish-Christian Schism

XIII. The Scholarly versus the Boorish

XIV. Sages of Yavneh Quarrel and Make Peace

XV. Judaism Survives in the Galilee

XVI. Rabbi Judah the Prince

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