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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250401T201500
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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. Christi
 ne 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 th
 e 2024-2025 season in the monthly scholarly programming offered by WIJS at
  YINR.\n\nDr. Hayes’s lecture is entitled\, “Humor and Play in Rabbini
 c Literature: Can We Laugh at God?”  In many legends and stories\, the 
 Talmudic rabbis depict God in shockingly human terms: the divine being wea
 rs tefillin and prays\, studies Torah\, weeps\, makes mistakes\, and suffe
 rs 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 "seri
 ously" distinctive character of Israel's God.\n\nChristine Hayes\, Sterli
 ng Professor Emerita of Religious Studies in Classical Judaica\, Yale Univ
 ersity\, specializes in Talmudic-midrashic studies. Her books include: Be
 tween the Babylonian and Palestinian Talmuds (1997 Salo Baron prize)\; G
 entile Impurities and Jewish Identities (a 2003 National Jewish Book Awar
 d finalist)\; and What’s Divine about Divine Law? Early Perspectives (
 2015 National Jewish Book Award in Scholarship\; 2016 award from the Ameri
 can Publishers Association\; 2016 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award)\, and most 
 recently Literature of the Sages: A Revisioning (2023). Edited volumes i
 nclude: The Cambridge Companion to Judaism and Law (2017) and Classic
  Essays in Rabbinic Culture and History (2018). She has authored two intr
 oductory 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 a
 s the President of the Association for Jewish Studies.\n\nAll WIJS program
 ming is open to women and men.  Please visit https://www.yinr.org/wijs.h
 tml 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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