The 21st Century Work/Shabbat Balance (1/4) with Rabbanit Leah Sarna and Rabbanit Sara Wolkenfeld

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Labour & Rest"

This course explores the intersection of work and melakhah (forbidden Shabbat actions) in our non-agrarian, globalized, work-from-anywhere economy. The first three meetings of the course will introduce participants to under-studied areas of Hilchot Shabbat that are highly resonant to work today: what kinds of reading material are allowed on Shabbat? What kinds of list-making or tracking is allowed? In a globalized economy, how do timezones affect the work I can do on Friday or Saturday night? The last class will turn to a more conceptual framework of Melakha and ask: when making salad seems more Halakhically fraught than writing an email, how do we think about the fact that Halakha and communal practice seems to allow for one and not the other?

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This audio was originally captured from Zoom on 02/07/2022 as part of Drisha's Spring Zman.