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Podcast: Jewish Ideas to Change the World
Episode: Lessons from the Olive Tree for Families, Jewish Unity, and the Social Security System
Description: A virtual event presentation by Dr. Jon Greenberg.About The Event:This program will explore the symbolic and halachic significance of the olive tree. The questions we’ll examine include:Neglected agricultural and political reasons that the olive oil Chanukah displaced an earlier symbol of Chanukah,Why the 15th of Av became a day for matchmaking,How the social and technological history of olive use mediates a five-hundred-year-old debate about how to read the Talmud, andThe beautiful lesson about family relationships that the Psalms draw from the biology of the olive tree.*So...