Our  Evening Study Programmes

Join Rabbi Joel every Tuesday evening at 7:30pm on Zoom from Dec 12th to Jan 2nd.

For the almost two thousand years of our forced dispersal, after the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, Jews have lived in a state of extreme physical powerlessness. We have lived without exercising the normal methods of coercion applied by large collectives like nation-states to control deviant behaviour within and existential threats from without. This did not stop our people from reflecting on how we should use such power appropriately were we to ever re-enter the fray of world politics as an autonomous state. In this mini-series we will examine biblical, rabbinic, medieval and modern sources on Jews, violence and war.