Richard Hidary

Rabbi Dr. Richard Hidary is an assistant professor of Judaic Studies at Yeshiva University, Stern College for Women and an assistant Rabbi at Sephardic Synagogue in Brooklyn.

Besides academic pursuits Richard also interested in Jewish education and has written a curriculum for teaching Deuteronomy and Psalms.

Current Courses:

Introduction to Midrash

Jewish Ethics

Past Courses

Introduction to the Bible

Second Temple Jewish History

 Dead Sea Scrolls

Psalms

Worldview of Hazal

Deuteronomy

Maimonides: Intellectual Portrait

Introduction to Talmud

Here is a recording of a paper he presented at the most recent Association of Jewish Studies conference in Los Angeles and the accompanying handout.

Dissertation Abstract

Publications:

Dispute for the Sake of Heaven: Legal Pluralism in the Talmud. Brown Judaic Studies. Providence: Brown University, 2010. Available on Amazon.

Contributor to the New Oxford Annotated Translation of the Mishnah, forthcoming.

“The Agonistic Bavli: Greco-Roman Rhetoric in Sasanian Persia” in Shoshannat Yaakov: Jewish and Iranian Studies in Honor of Yaakov Elman, edited by Shai Secunda and Steven Fine, 137-64. Leiden: Brill, 2012.

“Classical Rhetorical Arrangment and Reasoning in the Talmud: The Case of Yerushalmi Berakhot 1:1,” AJS Review 34:1 (April 2010), 33-64.

“Right Answers Revisited: Monism and Pluralism in the Talmud.” Dine Israel 26-27 (2009-2010), 229-255.

“Minhag and Halakha in the Talmuds: A Cross-Cultural Study,” Kol Hamevaser 3:7 (May 2010), 12-14.

“Traditional versus Academic Talmud Study: Hilkakh Nimrinhu le-Tarvaihu,” Kol Hamevaser 3:3 (December 2009): 8-9.

“Make Yourself Available to Forgive,” High Holidays Reader, Tebah, 2009: 38-44.