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Sunday, 17 Elul 5769 / 6 September 2009
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19:00
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Opening at the Jewish Community of Prague - reception
By invitation only (all registered participants of the Conference)
Chairman - Chief Rabbi of the Czech Republic Karol Efraim Sidon
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Maariv at the High synagogue |
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Monday, 18 Elul 5769 / 7 September 2009
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8:00 - 8:45
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Breakfast at the Jewish Community of Prague |
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11:30 - 12:30
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Lunch at the Jewish Community of Prague |
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13:00 - 15:00
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MĚSTKÁ KNIHOVNA - MUNICIPAL LIBRARY
Opening Session - Dr. Meir Seidler (chairman)
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Rabbi Prof. Neriah Gutel - The Halakhic Teachings of the Maharal
Prof. Jaroslav Pánek - An Emperor at the Prague Castle
Society and Culture in the Bohemian Kingdom during the Rudolf II's Rule
Prof. Binyamin Gross - Between rationalism and mysticism:
the Maharal's place in Jewish thought |
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15:00 - 16:30
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Visit to the Jewish Quarter and the Maharal’s Grave
Tehilim by Rabbis of Prague Beit Din [r. Landsberg r. Damari] |
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17:00
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Mincha at the Old New Synagogue |
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19:00
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Gala reception at the Prague City Town Hall
Under the auspices of the Mayor of the City of Prague Mr. Pavel Bém
Chairman Rabbi Yechiel Vasserman |
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21:15
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HOTEL THALIA
A study in the Maharal’s writings- Rabbi Guttel, Havruta (pairs) study.
[For Rabbis]
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Thuesday, 19 Elul 5769 / 8 September 2009
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7:00
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Shaharit at the Old New Synagogue |
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8:00 - 8:45
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Breakfast at the Jewish Community of Prague |
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MĚSTKÁ KNIHOVNA - MUNICIPAL LIBRARY |
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9:00 - 11:00
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Second Session – The Maharal and Universal Morality
Rabbi Haim Eisenberg [Chief rabbi of Austria] (chairman) |
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11:00 - 13:00
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Rabbi Dr. Yitzchak Adlerstein – The Image of the Non-Jew in the
Writings of the Maharal
Prof. David Banon – Was the Maharal a Humanist?
Rabbi Prof. Ben Zion Rosenfeld – Status of Women in the Maharal´s Thought |
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Third Session – The Maharal – Halakha and Aggadah |
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Rabbi Itzchak Haliva [Chief rabbi Turkey] (chairman)
Rabbi Prof. Neriah Gutel – The followers of Maharal in commentary
of the Aggadah
Rabbi Jehoshua Hartman – The Maharal and the Aggadah |
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13:00 - 14:00
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Lunch at the Jewish Community of Prague |
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MĚSTKÁ KNIHOVNA - MUNICIPAL LIBRARY |
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15:00 - 17:30
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Fourth Session – The Maharal as Innovator |
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Dr. David Biernot (chairman)
Prof. Klaus Samuel Davidowicz – The Maharal and the Myth of the Golem
Dr. Meir Seidler – Maharal’s thought and the challenge of modernity
Prof. Giuseppe Veltri – The Attitude of the Maharal to Sciences |
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17:30 - 17:45
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Coffee break |
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18:19:30
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Fifth Session – The Philosophical Teaching of the Maharal |
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Rabbi Itzchak Ehrenberg [Chief rabbi of Berlin] (chairman)
Rabbi Prof. Binyamin Ish Shalom – Hermeneutics and Philosophy
in the Writings of the Maharal of Prague
Prof. Yoseph Elkouby – Love and Fear of G-d in the Thought of the Maharal |
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20:00
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Mincha at the High Synagogue |
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20:30
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Dinner at the Jewish Community of Prague
Chairman: Itzchack Shtiglitz – Executive Director – Department for
Religious Affairs in the Diaspora – WZO |
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Maariv at the High synagogue |
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Wednesday, 20 Elul 5769 / 9 September 2009
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7:00
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Shaharit in the Old New Synagogue |
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8:00 - 8:45
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Breakfast at the Jewish Community of Prague |
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MĚSTKÁ KNIHOVNA - MUNICIPAL LIBRARY |
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9:00 - 11:00
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Final Session – The essence of Maharal to our generation |
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Rabbi Menachem Kalcheim (chairman)
Concluding Panel Discussion
Rabbi Gutel, Rabbi Rosenfeld, Rabbi Sidon |
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12:00
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Lunch at the Jewish Community of Prague |
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