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URL:https://www.wjcouncil.org/events/yinr-womens-initiative-for-jewish-stu
 dies-to-bring-dr-christine-hayes-via-zoom/
SUMMARY:YINR - Women’s Initiative for Jewish Studies to Bring Dr.
 Christine Hayes via Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Women’s Initiative for Jewish Studies (WIJS) at Young Israel
 of New Rochelle is proud to present Dr. Christine Hayes on Tuesday\, April
 1\, 2025 @ 8:15 pm (ET) on Zoom.  Hayes will be the eighth speaker of the
 2024-2025 season in the monthly scholarly programming offered by WIJS at
 YINR.\n\nDr. Hayes’s lecture is entitled\, “Humor and Play in Rabbinic
 Literature: Can We Laugh at God?”  In many legends and stories\, the
 Talmudic rabbis depict God in shockingly human terms: the divine being
 wears tefillin and prays\, studies Torah\, weeps\, makes mistakes\, and
 suffers correction by humans.  Were the rabbis just having fun? Or were
 these anthropomorphic representations of God grounded in a subversive
 resistance to prevailing Greco-Roman ideas about the divine? This lecture
 considers the ancient rabbis' use of humor and play to explore and express
 the "seriously" distinctive character of Israel's God.\n\nChristine
 Hayes\, Sterling Professor Emerita of Religious Studies in Classical
 Judaica\, Yale University\, specializes in Talmudic-midrashic studies. Her
 books include: Between the Babylonian and Palestinian Talmuds (1997 Salo
 Baron prize)\; Gentile Impurities and Jewish Identities (a 2003 National
 Jewish Book Award finalist)\; and What’s Divine about Divine Law? Early
 Perspectives (2015 National Jewish Book Award in Scholarship\; 2016 award
 from the American Publishers Association\; 2016 Jordan Schnitzer Book
 Award)\, and most recently Literature of the Sages: A Revisioning (2023).
 Edited volumes include: The Cambridge Companion to Judaism and
 Law (2017) and Classic Essays in Rabbinic Culture and History (2018).
 She has authored two introductory volumes (The Emergence of
 Judaism and Introduction to the Bible) as well as numerous journal
 articles. Hayes is a Senior Research Fellow with the Shalom Hartman
 Institute of North America\, and recently served as the President of the
 Association for Jewish Studies.\n\nAll WIJS programming is open to women
 and men.  Please visit https://www.yinr.org/wijs.html to view the
 complete WIJS 2024-25 schedule.  For more information\, to be added to the
 WIJS email list\, or for Zoom information\, please call 914-636-2215 or
 email: wijs@yinr.org.  Individuals on the WIJS mailing list will
 automatically receive the Zoom information.
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