Torah Study Schedule, 5780 (2019-20) First Semester

Turning Points in Jewish History

Rabbi Barry L. Schwartz

1. Sept.   7 Call to Abraham

2. Sept. 14 Exodus

3. Sept. 21 Revelation at Sinai

4. Sept. 28 Entering the Promised Land

5. Oct.   5 Give Us a King

6. Oct. 12 Exile of the Ten Tribes

7. Oct. 19 Destruction of the First Temple

8. Oct. 26 Return to Zion and the Second Temple

9. Nov.  2 Special Torah Study at Temple Sinai  (9:00 AM)

10. Nov.  9 Hellenism and the Hasmonean revolt

11. Nov. 16 Rome and Destruction of the Second Temple

12. Nov. 23 Bar Kochba Revolt

13. Nov. 30 Codification of the Mishnah

14. Dec.   7 Mishnah I

15. Dec. 14 Mishnah II

16. Dec. 21 Mishnah III

17. Dec. 28 Mishnah IV

Torah Study Schedule, 5780 (2019-20) Second Semester

Turning Points in Jewish History

Rabbi Barry L. Schwartz

18. Jan.   4 Vacation

19. Jan.  11  Vacation

20. Jan. 18  Rome, Fall of the Second Temple, Bar Kochba Revolt

21. Jan. 25  Codification of the Mishnah

22. Feb.   1 Golden Age of Spain and Maimonides

23. Feb.   8 Crusades

24. Feb. 15 Kabbalah and Nachmanides

25. Feb. 22 Spanish Expulsion

26. Feb. 29 Cossack Revolt and Polish Jewry

27. Mar.  7 Baal Shem Tov and the Rise of Hasidism

28. Mar. 14 Special Torah Study at Temple Sinai (9:00 AM)

29. Mar. 21 Napoleon and the Sanhedrin

30. Mar. 28 Germany and the Rise of Reform

31. Apr.  4 Great Migration to America

32. Apr. 11 Herzl and the Zionist Movement

33. Apr. 18 Holocaust

34. Apr. 25 Modern Israel

35. May   2 Six Day War

36. May   9 Feminist Revolution

37. May 16 Conclusion