Feature Lecture - 12:00pm
Werdiger Family Hall, 90 Hotham Street, St Kilda East
  

Dec 25th

Dreams, coincidences and insight: 
A  Kabbalistic exploration of the meanings of dreams, visions and premonitions. We will also explore the spiritual significance of sleep and the profound secret that the very fact of dreaming holds. 

Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe

Dec 26th

Kabbalanomics:
How the Kabbalah can help us understand the nature of the economy, the lessons we can extract from its workings and how to best approach our involvement in economic life.

Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe

Dec 27th

Laws and ethics of War in Judaism:
- What do classical Jewish texts say about:
• Justifications for War
• Protecting noncombatants
• Non-conventional weaponry
• Interrogation 
• Treaties

Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe

Dec 28th

Genetic Engineering:
Designer babies – When you can choose your baby’s gender, appearance and genetic predispositions- should you?

Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe

Dec 30th

To Lead is to Follow, To Follow is to Lead: 
Judaic Perspectives on the Essence of Leadership. 
• What are the characteristics of the ideal leader? 
• How has Judaism’s unique perspectives shaped the character of the relation between the individual, the community and those who lead them?
• What is the place of individuality in the relationship with a powerful leadership figure?
• What are the spiritual dimensions of varying responses to leadership?

Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe

Dec 31st

Privacy, Press and Prying Minds:
Judaism on:
 • The Right to privacy and your obligation to give private “space” to others?
• What is appropriate for journalists (or anyone else to) discuss and reveal about individual’s lives and actions? And more.

Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe

Jan 1st

Can Orthodox Judaism be hijacked by Fanatics?
Fanatic, intolerant,  and violent iterations of Islam have profoundly affected us recently. These phenomena cannot significantly exist in Classical, Halachic, Judaism. Explore the nature and unique effectiveness of the safeguards built into the legal systems and communal institutions of Classic Judaism.

Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe