Avivah Zornberg

Avivah Zornberg has been teaching Torah for the past 30 years at Jewish, academic & psychoanalytic settings around the world, & is the author of five acclaimed books on Tanach.

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Avivah Zornberg has been teaching Torah for the past 30 years at Matan, Yakar, Pardes, the Jerusalem College for Adults, and at Jewish, academic, and psychoanalytic settings around the world. She is the author of five acclaimed books on Tanach, most recently "Moses: A Human Life."

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Bewilderments: The Sin of the Spies

The turning point of the Israelites' wilderness journey is the narrative of the Spies. When the people declare their intention to return to Egypt, is it fear that drives them? Or is it deeper issues of love and hate, trust and skepticism? We will explore this central narrative through the prism of midrashic, literary, and psychoanalytic materials.

'Fragment of a life:' On reading Jonah

What is Jonah’s motivation in fleeing from God? In this brief, fraught text, a profoundly human tension reveals itself, culminating in the enigmatic final chapter. What would it mean for Jonah to be found by God?

'To be or not to be:' a tale of five sisters

The five daughters of Zelofchad figure in a unique brief narrative which throws them into a relation of some tension with Moses. We will study this intriguing narrative, with the help of midrashic and hassidic sources. In what sense can this be considered a feminist narrative?

'Sing – now! – to God:' Miriam and Moses

The history of Miriam, the prophetess who speaks enviously of her brother Moses, offers an intimate glimpse of the tensions between brother and sister, both leaders, both prophets. Midrashic material will illuminate this mysterious relationship.

'I am a stranger:' Becoming Ruth

Ruth is a stranger in more senses than one. Who is this unknown woman who is destined to become mother of royalty? What is the process by which she finds her way into a foreign and unwelcoming culture and religious tradition? How does destiny come about?

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