When We Don't Respect Our Leaders
Lecture with Dr. Jeremy Tabick of the Hadar Institute
Who in our communities really deserves our respect and how should we show it? How did our sages deal with the discrepancy between who should lead and who does lead? The Torah tells us that we have to stand before an elder, but gives no guidance as to who this category includes. Our rabbis in the Talmud Yerushalmi discuss this question with regard to a live issue of their times: what they saw as corrupt synagogue leadership.
Union House is pleased to present this lecture in partnership with the Hadar Institute and is co-sponsored by Minyan Atara.
Dr. Jeremy Tabick is senior editor and faculty at Hadar. Jeremy received his PhD in Talmud at JTS, writing "'Our Holy Rabbi': A Reassessment of the Historical Evidence about Rabbi, His Role in the Rabbinic Movement and in Reconstructing Late Antique Jewish History". He graduated from the University of Manchester (in the UK) with a Masters in Physics, and is an alumnus of Yeshivat Hadar and the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem. He lives in Riverdale with his wife and three children.