20. Grands penseurs juifs

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20 thèmes

  1. Grands penseurs juifs

 

Maimonides

 

  1. What makes the Rambam the preeminent Jewish thinker?
  2. What does the Mishna Torah do?
  3. What does ‘Yigdal’ affirm
  4. What did the Rambam mean when he said God has no body?

 

Spinoza

 

  1. Why was Spinoza deemed a heretic?
  2. What does it mean to say that Spinoza was a pantheist? (God and nature form one reality)
  3. Is it true to say that what made Spinoza dangerous for 17th Century Dutch Jews was that he placed reason over belief?

 

 

The Baal Shem Tov

 

  1. What made the ideas of Hassidism attractive to rural Jews in Ukraine in the 18th century?
  2. What separates the Hassidim from the rest of Clal Israel, in the eyes of the Baal Shem Tov?
  3. Who were the opponents of the Hassidim, and what did the ‘Mitnagdim’ offer as the core of Jewish life?

 

René Cassin

 

  1. To what extent does the struggle for Jewish rights lead Jews to the struggle for human rights?
  2. How did the Holocaust transform Cassin from a Jewish Frenchman into a French Jew?
  3. In what ways did René Cassin represent the contribution of the Jews of France to the defence of the country in both world wars?
  4. How did Cassin square his French patriotism with his Zionism?

 

 

Levinas

 

  1. What is the force of the encounter with the face of the ‘Other’ in Levinas’s philosophy?
  2. What does Levinas mean when he says the face of the Other is the shadow of God?
  3. What kind of Jewish tradition did Levinas impart in the Alliance Israelite Universel?

 

 

 

Abraham Yehoshua Heschel

 

  1. Why did Heschel believe that Jews had to show their belief with their feet, by joining political movements?
  2. Did Heschel’s belief that Jews had no monopoly on truth relegate his Judaism to being just another sect?
  3. What did Heschel mean by saying that God has human feelings?

 

 

 

Web-sites relevant to these thinkers:

Grands Penseurs  Jay

1.     Histoire du peuple juif – Magazine d’Akadem : Rav Kook, penseur du sionisme

You tube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h67_vMpzXA

 

2.     Maïmonide et Le Guide des Égarés – Cours n°1 – Rabbin Yann Boissière

You tube : https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=la+vie+de+Maimonides

 

3.     Le genie de Maimonides – le Rambam

You tube : https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=la+vie+de+Maimonides

 

4.     Interview with Levinas (En francais with English Subtitles)

 

You tube : https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=levinas

 

  1. Abraham Joshua Heschel, Les Batisseurs de Temps

 

  1. Abraham Joshua Heschel, Shabbat

You tube : https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=abraham+Heschel+sabbath

 

7.     La naissance du hassidisme, avec Jean Baumgarten

You Tube : https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=l%27histoire+du+hassidisme

 

 

8.    Thomas Römer : « Moïse est-il juif ou égyptien ? » – Les grandes questions

 

You Tube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQIQw03hcuI

 

 

 

 

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