Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street,, Cambridge, MA 02138
FULL DAY CONFERENCE in Hybrid Format
If you missed this event, you can view recordings of the sessions below:
PROGRAM:
MORNING SESSION: 10:30AM – 12:00PM
The Unity of Maimonides: Philosophy and/versus Halakhah
Chair: David Stern, Harvard University
Speakers:
Zev Harvey, Hebrew University: “Twersky on the Integration of Law and Philosophy in Maimonides”
Professor Harvey’s Handout for talk
Paul Franks, Yale University: “A Code Fit for a King: Twersky on Maimonides’ Integration of Philosophy and Halakhah”/
Morning Session Recording
LUNCH (Kosher, dairy provided): 12:00 – 1:00PM
AFTERNOON SESSION 1: 1:00 – 2:30PM
The Dynamics of Jewish History: Change and Internal/External Influence and Causality
Chair: Shaye Cohen, Harvard University
Speakers:
Talya Fishman, University of Pennsylvania: “Reverberations of Hellenistic Compositional Culture in the Mishneh Torah’s Approach to Jewish Law”
Jay Harris, Harvard University: Dynamics of Jewish History
Afternoon Session 1 Recording
BREAK: 2:30 – 2:45PM
AFTERNOON SESSION 2: 3:00 – 4:30PM
Halakhah and Meta-Halakhah
Chair: Bernard Septimus, Harvard University (Emeritus)
Speakers:
Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg, New York University: “Radical Practicality: on Halakha, Organization, and Meaning.”
Moshe Halbertal, Hebrew University: “Three Concepts of meta-Halakhah and their relation to Halakhah”
CLOSING REMARKS
Bernard Septimus
Afternoon Session 2 Recording
