Beit Midrash Summer Series—Session III
Date: Jul 30, 2024
Time: 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Sponsor: Public Lectures and Events
Location: JTS
Category: Beit Midrash Summer Series Public Lectures & Events
Session III: Challenges to the Requirement of Reproduction in Talmudic Law: How the Talmud Makes Its Case
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
5:00–6:30 p.m. ET
In Person at JTS
3080 Broadway, Beit Midrash (at 122nd Street)
New York City
With Dr. Marjorie Lehman, Associate Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, JTS
In this class we will examine how the rabbis transform the divine blessing “be fruitful and multiply” in Genesis 1:28. Through the study of a Talmudic passage in Tractate Yevamot, we will discuss the complicated relationship between procreation and Jewish identity and analyze the rabbinic struggle with their own legal interventions into an area over which they had little control.
SUGGESTED DONATION: $18
Session I is July 11: The first session of Beit Midrash Summer Series is Rabbinic Philosophies of Forgiveness with Dr. Shira Billet, Professor of Bible and Ancient Semitic Languages, JTS
Session II is July 22: The second session of Beit Midrash Summer Series is Interpreting Heretics: Strategies for Reading Rabbinic Literature in Context with Benjamin Kamine, PhD Candidate and Adjunct Instructor in Rabbinic Literatures and Cultures, JTS
