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Limmud Toronto 2018

THE SCHEDULE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE. One does not register for sessions. Seating at individual sessions is first come, first served.

9:30am EDT

Eruv on Video: Boundaries and Place-making as Experimental Film FL223Aaron Rotenberg Making Letters Dance and Fly J225Baruch Sienna Contrasting Jewish Creation Accounts: Genesis and Sapiens, by Yuval Noah Harari J140Edward Elkin Transliteration as Commentary P120Chaim Grafstein Kabbalah, Geometry, and Modern Geography: A 5779-Year Odyssey J230Stephen Kraft From King David's Harp to Modern Neuroscience - The healing power of music explained J125Aaron Lightstone

10:30am EDT

Christian Readings of the Hebrew Bible: Cultural Understandings in a Multicultural world FL223Karen Hamilton Fallingwater: Moshe's Transgression and Akiva's Transformation FL219Michael Hattin Climate Change: The New Pharaohs? J140Dianne Saxe

11:30am EDT

A Romp Through the Bible J130Laya Crust A Rainbow Thread: Recovering Queer Jewish History J140Noam Sienna Mathematics and Mishna J230Adina Gamse Entering the Dark Cloud: R’ Nahman of Breslov and the Dark Torah P115Rabbi David Ingber

1:30pm EDT

The Most Difficult Case in Jewish Law J225Jarrod Grover I am a boy, and these are my clothes. J140Mike Moskowitz A Better Path to Better Tefilah (Prayer) FL219Aaron Katchen Modern Feminist Midrash on Ruth J230Rachel Adelman The Torah of Divorce P105Mordechai Torczyner

2:30pm EDT

Angels, Demons, Magic and the Rabbinic Tradition: Old Texts and New Discoveries FL219B. Barry Levy Chanukah: How the Rabbis radicalized the most wonderful time of the year and changed the future of Jewish history J130YCT Rabbinical School Esau v. Jacob: Live Courtroom Drama J250Marvin Huberman • Fred Tayar The Idea of the Stranger and Human Rights in the Torah P120Harvey Savage The Gifts of Slowing Down: Jewish Wisdom of Shabbat for a thriving and more spacious life every day J225Annie Matan Kaddish, Cosmos and Covenant J230Baruch Frydman-Kohl

3:30pm EDT

Do We all Serve the Same God? J225James Diamond Jewish Non-Attachment FL223Michael Satz Sustainable Jewish Beekeeping J130Risa Cooper • Sabrina Malach The Top Ten Most Messed Up Bible Stories You Never Learned in School J125Dan Aviv Light in the Darknes: Chanuka and Tu B'shvat for Grownups J230Jonathan Wolf

4:30pm EDT

Doing Judaism with a global consciousness FL219Shalom Schachter G'd's A Four-Letter Word: Is Monotheism Idolatry? P115Rabbi David Ingber

5:30pm EDT

Jewish pregnancy, labour and birth FL219Denise Handlarski Orthodoxy, Pedagogy, and Studies in Bereshit through Literature J230Jonathan Parker