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Jody Hirsh: Bible, Midrash, Art: The Richness of Bible Narratives
Jody Hirsh: Bible, Midrash, Art: The Richness of Bible Narratives (Virtual on Zoom)
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Jody Hirsh: Bible, Midrash, Art: The Richness of Bible Narratives
Jody Hirsh: Bible, Midrash, Art: The Richness of Bible Narratives (Virtual on Zoom)
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Ron Reissberg: People of the Book, but What Book? The Confrontation Between Torah and Talmud
3 sessions
Apparently uncomfortable with various portions of the Torah, the rabbis provide interpretations that tend to neutralize the troubling aspects of those texts. In this class, we will engage in close readings of texts from the Torah and corresponding Talmudic passages.
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Divinity and Infinity: Exploring the Infinite in Mathematics and Judaism
Mathematicians, theologians, and even children ponder the inspiring and surprising nature of the infinite. Dr. Lesser will explore—in a lively, interactive way—how math concepts can help illuminate some big ideas in Judaism, including the value of life, the value of commandments, and the coexistence of God's transcendence and immanence. While parts of this realm can get technical, have no fear: our session will maintain a liberal arts, general adult audiences sensibility to keep it accessible to a broad diversity of backgrounds in mathematics and in Judaism.
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Eddy Portnoy: Am Yisrael High: Jews and Cannabis (Virtual on Zoom)
In Partnership with Congregation Beth El, Berkeley
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Daniel Boyarin: Talmud for Beginners (Virtual on Zoom)
In partnership with Sha'ar Zahav
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Chana Kronfeld: The Land as Woman—The Afterlife of a Poetic Metaphor in Women’s Modern Hebrew Poetry (Zoom only)
The Land-as-Woman is one of the most deeply rooted metaphorical systems in Jewish as well as Western and Middle-Eastern cultures, used to support the discourses of colonialism and nationalism throughout history. It has its origins in the Hebrew Bible. In modern Hebrew poetry modernist women poets critique a tradition that views women always as metaphors, never as literal subjects, developing a new erotics of the address to the land that calls into question patriarchal models of conquest and subjugation.
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Robert Alter & Ron Hendel: The Bible Now - Qohelet (Ecclesiastes) (Virtual on Zoom)
In partnership with Temple Isaiah, Temple Sinai and Congregation Beth El
Qohelet (or Kohellet, Ecclesiastes) is one of the strangest and most revolutionary books of the Hebrew Bible. We will explore its poetry and philosophy in the context of biblical and ancient Near Eastern wisdom literature.
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Diaspora and Homecoming in Jewish Poetry: A Reading and Writing Class (In Person Only)
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Daniel C. Matt: Becoming Elijah: Prophet of Transformation (In Person Only)
FREE program presented by our partners, the Jewish Community Library
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