The Tragedy of Heruta, the Madonna who Became a Whore with Gila Fine
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Special Lunch & Learn with the Center for Jewish Learning
The Tragedy of Heruta, the Madonna who Became a Whore
Welcoming Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies faculty member Gila Fine
Wednesday, February 27
11:30 am-1 pm
Kaplan Feldman Complex
12 Millstone Campus, 63146
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Light dairy kosher lunch provided; $10 per person.
Why are women divided into saintly and seductive? How does a married couple go for years without intimacy? And why must the wife dress up as a prostitute to show her husband who she really is? Join us for a discussion of the domestic drama of R. Hiyya and his wife, read through the lens of Demosthenes and Nahmanides, Sigmund Freud, Oscar Wilde, Immanuel Kant, Martin Buber, Ruth Calderon, and Mad Men.
Gila Fine is the Editor in Chief of Maggid Books (Koren Publishers Jerusalem). She is also a teacher of Aggada at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, exploring the stories of the Talmud through philosophy, literary criticism, psychoanalysis, and pop-culture. Gila is the former editor of Azure: Ideas for the Jewish Nation and has previously taught at Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University, and the London School of Jewish Studies. Haaretz has called her “a young woman who is on her way to becoming one of the more outstanding Jewish thinkers of the next generation.”
The Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, located in Jerusalem, brings together people of all backgrounds to study classic Jewish texts and current Jewish issues in an open, warm, and challenging learning environment.
For additional information, contact Kathy Schmeltz at KSchmeltz@JFedSTL.org or 314-442-3761.
Sh’ma: Listen! Speaker Series is generously funded by the Lubin-Green Foundation, a Supporting Foundation of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis.
The Sh’ma: Listen! Speakers Series promotes engagement with a wide spectrum of ideas as a means to deepen our community’s education and commitment to Jewish life. The views expressed by speakers are their own and not necessarily those of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis or the Center for Jewish Learning.
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