The start of the academic year at NYU has corresponded with Ellul, Rosh HaShanna and Yom Kippur, and thank God our community has been able to learn a lot of Torah.
Below are the recordings of three courses with classes ranging in length from five to forty-five minutes. Just enough time before Yom Kippur to fit a couple of them in!
Pre-Selichot Thoughts and Ideas – (5 Minutes on Average)
Why Does Elazar Ben Durdaya Cry?
Rambam’s Hilchot Teshuva (15-20 minutes each)
Ch.1 – Did The Rambam Think Teshuva Was A Mitzvah?
Ch.3 – Everyone As Perfectly Balanced Between Faults and Merits
Ch.5 – The Centrality of Free Will
Chs.6+7 – The Mindset of Teshuva
Shabbat Shuva Derasha – The Hypocrisy of Teshuva (source sheet)
Tanakh Characters of the Yamim Noraim (approx. 45 minutes)
Yechezkel, Mosheh, and the 13 Attributes
Avraham (guest lecture by Rabbi Dr Sam Lebens)