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You are here: Home / Annual Memorial Lecture / The Eleventh Annual Louis Jacobs Memorial Lecture by Benjamin Sommer

The Eleventh Annual Louis Jacobs Memorial Lecture by Benjamin Sommer

What Really Happened At Sinai?

By Professor Benjamin Sommer of JTS

16 July 2017

Professor Sommer focuses on the theologically significant ambiguities in Exodus 19-20 and how they give rise to an interpretive debate that begins in Deuteronomy 4-5 and continues through midrashic literature, the medieval commentators and into Hasidism and modern Jewish thought. This powerful lecture by a renowned scholar addresses our contemporary questions about the nature of Torah and the status of Halacha.

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Annual Louis Jacobs Memorials

  • The 1st Annual Memorial by Marc Saperstein
  • The 2nd Annual Memorial by Arnold Eisen
  • The 3rd Annual Memorial by Michael Melchior
  • The 4th Annual Memorial by Norman Solomon
  • The 6th Annual Memorial by Jonathan Wittenberg
  • The 8th Annual Memorial by Jeremy Gordon
  • The 9th Annual Memorial by Karen Armstrong
  • The 10th Annual Memorial by Jeremy Rosen
  • The 11th Annual Memorial Lecture by Benjamin Sommer
  • The 12th Annual Memorial by Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo
  • The 13th Annual Memorial by Rabbi Shai Held
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