Martha Minow: When Law Should Forgive: On the Limitations of Teshuva [Teshuva 2/5]

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yussie Zakutinsky’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

videos articles and recommended readings depending on what your metric is for judging what the most famous talmud lecture of all of history is one could argue that on Friday night September 13th 1957 just about 65 years ago there was the most famous talmud lecture that was ever given and it's the metric you use is publicity this is absolutely number one why do I say that because on the front page of the New York Times of the next morning this is Saturday September 1957. on the front page albeit beneath the fold it's not above the fold it's right beneath the fold but on the bottom of the page but on the front page the New York Times reported on a talmud lecture that took place at jts the conservative Seminary why was this on the front page of the New York Times it's not really because of what was said or how important the talmud lecture was it was really because who was in the crowd not who was giving the talmud lecture the front page headlines some September 14 1957 reads as follows Warren studies talmudic law here and Warren of course is referring to Chief Justice Earl Warren and there is a picture of him with Dr Louis Finkelstein who's the chancellor of jts at the time chief justice Earl Warren Earl Warren was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America he and president Harry Truman paid a visit to jts now jts at the time was a

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