Moses: A Human Life

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Avivah Zornberg's lecture on Moses will be filled with biblical and literary references, and psychological insights. Live from Jerusalem!

Moses fails to enter Canaan not because his life is too short but because it is a human life. – Franz KafkaSunday, May 23 | 10am Pacific | 8pm IsraelTickets<ul><li>$10 - Chochmat Members</li><li>$10 - Members of Cosponsoring Organizations</li><li>$18 - General Public</li></ul>DescriptionMoses’ fundamental sense of himself as ‘not a man of words’ comes to a poignant consummation in the long speeches he makes to the people before he dies. What does it mean to learn to speak?This lecture is based on Dr. Zornberg’s book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Moses-Human-Life-Jewish-Lives/dp/0300251882/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Moses: A Human Life</a>, which is an unprecedented portrait of Moses’ inner world. No figure looms larger in Jewish culture than Moses, and few have stories more enigmatic.Drawing on a broad range of sources—literary as well as psychoanalytic, a wealth of classical Jewish texts alongside George Eliot, W. G. Sebald, and Werner Herzog—Zornberg offers a vivid and original portrait of the biblical Moses. Moses’s vexing personality, his uncertain origins, and his turbulent relations with his own people are acutely explored by Zornberg, who sees this story, told and retold, as crucial not only to the biblical past but also to the future of Jewish history.About Avivah ZornbergAn internationally celebrated Torah Scholar, Dr. Avivah Zornberg holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from Cambridge University. For the past thirty 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 weaves together ideas from literature, secular philosophy, psychology, and the ancient teachers’ take on the texts. Her work is entirely engaging and built for the 21st century.CosponsorsThis event is cosponsored by <a href="https://kehillasynagogue.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Kehilla Synagogue</a>, <a href="https://tikvah.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">B’nai Tikvah</a>, <a href="https://www.cbiberkeley.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Beth Israel</a>, <a href="http://www.beyttikkun.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Beyt Tikkun</a>, <a href="https://netivotshalom.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Netivot Shalom</a>, <a href="https://www.jcceastbay.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">JCC-East Bay</a>, <a href="https://www.bethelberkeley.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Beth El,</a> <a href="https://www.coastsidejewishcommunity.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Coastside Jewish Community</a>, <a href="https://www.mcjc.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Mendocino Coast Jewish Community</a>

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