Rabbi Yehoshua's Yom Kippur
In the Talmud there is the famous story of two Yom Kippurs. The Yom Kippur of Rabban Gamliel and the Yom Kippur of Rabbi Yehoshua. Rabban Gamliel was deposed for demeaning Rabbi Yehoshua and demanding that he come to him on Yom Kippur according to his calendar. Join Rabbi David Sedley as he provides the story background and discusses the fundamental difference of approach between these two great minds.
Rabbi David Sedley lives in Jerusalem with his wife and six children. He was born and raised in New Zealand before coming to Israel in 1989. He left Israel temporarily (for eight years) to serve as a communal Rabbi in Scotland and England and returned to Israel in 2004. His latest book is "The Elephant of Deliberate Forgetfulness: and other unexpected interpretations of the weekly Torah reading". He has also translated Rabbeinu Yonah's commentary on Pirkei Avos and is the co-author of Sefiros: Spiritual Refinement Through Counting the Omer (both Judaica Press). Over the years Rabbi Sedley has worked as a journalist, a translator, a video director and in online reputation management. He also writes a weekly Torah blog on the Times of Israel.