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November 27, 2023 75 mins

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Labour & Rest"

This course covers two main themes based on a forthcoming book by Ezra Zuckerman Sivan: 1) the Torah as heralding the invention of the seven-day week, and secondarily 2) the social scientific question of how and why the seven-day week was invented. Each lecture is focused on a specific puzzle that gains its significance once we shake off our erroneous intuition that the seven-day week is built into the natural world. The key sources used in each session will be biblical, augmented by insights from rabbinic texts.

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This audio was originally captured from Zoom on 03/03/2022 as part of Drisha's Spring Zman. 

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