Lecture by Avivah Zornberg
The Murmuring Deep:
Moses' Speech Inhibition as Pivotal Issue in the Exodus Narrative
Thursday, April 18, 7:30 p.m.
Drawing on midrashic and Hasidic sources, as well as on philosophical and psychoanalytical thinking, Avivah Zornberg, one of the world's most captivating teachers of Torah, will explore the nature of Moses' speech inhibition and explain why she considers this to be a pivotal issue in the Exodus narrative.
Avivah Zornberg earned a Ph.D. in English literature from Cambridge University and holds a visiting lectureship in the London School of Jewish Studies. After teaching English literature at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, she turned to teaching Torah in a number of venues in Jerusalem where she has drawn thousands of students to her lectures. Employing insights from rabbinic literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis, she advances highly original literary analyses of biblical texts. She is the author of three books that have been widely acclaimed as masterpieces of biblical interpretation.
Free and open to the public
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