‘Axe for the frozen sea within us:’ law and violence
Dr. Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
Sunday, May 22nd
7:30pm
Maimonides School
34 Philbrick Rd. in Brookline
Open to men and women.
$20 - regular admission
$10 - full-time university students and full-time teachers
Bring your teen for free!
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After the Revelation at Sinai, civil laws are given – many of them in the form of short narratives that describe how the violence of human aggression is to be met by the violence of the law. We will explore midrashic, hassidic and psychoanalytic sources that deal with the problem of integrating aggression and empathy.
Dr. Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg holds a BA and PhD in English Literature from Cambridge University. For the past thirty-five years, she has taught Torah in Jerusalem at MaTan, Yakar, Pardes and the Jerusalem College for Adults. Dr. Zornberg also holds a Visiting Lectureship at the London School of Jewish Studies. She travels widely, lecturing in Jewish, academic and psychoanalytic settings.
Co-sponsored by Maimonides School.