Meaning and stuff

Don't miss this lecture on Writing Modern Midrash. Put up with the inaudible student questions and the untranslated. The teaching about reading is too good. HT Iyov via a comment from Drew Kaplan. You need to hear a few words that he says too quickly at first: pshat = peshat, the plain meaning, sdom = Sodom, lote = Lot, hava = Eve etc.

Here is a Jewish teacher who reads Herbert, Keats, and Lewis, as well as Rambam and Rashi of course.

The teacher is identified - per comment - as R. Aryeh Klapper of Harvard Hillel, Maimonides High School, the Boston Beis Din (Rabbinical Court).