Join us for this very special programme at Hampstead Shul on Shabbat 11th June and First Night Shavuot
Event Details:
8.30pm Shabbat Mincha
9.00pm Seuda Shlishit with short Divrei Torah
10.00pm Yom Tov Maariv
10.23pm Motzei Shabbat
10.30pm Yom Tov Kiddush and dessert
11.00pm Tikkun Leyl Shavuot with speakers:
Professor Lawrence Kaplan – The Love and Fear of God in Maimonides According to Rav Soloveitchik
Mrs Liat Mayerfeld – The Evil Eye: Is keneinehorah just bubbeh meises?!
Rabbi Moshe Mayerfeld – Intellectual theft and rights: The 10 commandments and modern business ethics
Rabbi Dr Michael Harris – The Second Commandment: Which Images are Jews Forbidden to Make?
2.42am Early Shacharit and Mussaf
For catering purposes please let Candice at the Hampstead Shul Office know if you are joining us for Seuda Shlishit and Yom Tov dessert at admin@hampsteadshul.org.uk or 020-7435-1518.
Our guest Lawrence J. Kaplan is Professor of Rabbinics and Jewish Philosophy in the Department of Jewish Studies of McGill University, Montreal Quebec, where he has been teaching for over forty years. Born in 1944, he received his B.A. from Yeshiva College, his M.A. and PhD. from Harvard University, and Rabbinic Ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elkhanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University. He is well known for his exceptionally wide range of interests and areas of expertise, and has published extensively in both medieval and modern Jewish thought. He has coedited both The Thought of Moses Maimonides and Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook and Jewish Spirituality. Perhaps he is best known for his many studies of the thought of Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik and for his translation from the Hebrew of his classic essay Ish ha-Halakhah (Halakhic Man). This translation was lauded by Soloveitchik scholars as the “gold standard” for Soloveitchik translations.