Join us after Kiddush for a series of Shiurim with ASBI Member Rabbi Will Friedman at ASBI.

What are the basic obligations necessary to hold society together? What should be our attitude toward private and common property? How far do our obligations extend—to neighbors, fellow citizens, or to all human beings? Long before Enlightenment thinkers engaged these questions, rabbinic tradition formulated its own set of answers, which can serve to challenge and refine our contemporary notions of what we owe each other.

• March 8th: Locke vs. Leviticus: What's the Point of Living in a Society, Anyway?
• March 15th: "A Sedomic Attitude": Jewish Reflections on Capitalism, Socialism, and Barbarism
• March 22nd: My Enemy and/or My Brother?: Universalism and Particularism in the Jewish Social Contract

Rabbi Will Friedman has been a member of ASBI since 2021, but his affiliation with ASBI extends back to the summer of 2005, when he attended daily minyan regularly while doing an internship. He is currently the rebbetzin of Base LNCLN, completing a doctorate, and teaching Torah in a variety of venues. He is passionate about realizing the vision of Devarim 4:6-8, that Torah should be "our wisdom and understanding in the eyes of the nations" because our "laws and statutes are righteous."