A virtual event presentation by Dr. Devora Steinmetz
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ABOUT THE EVENT:
The Talmud tells a story about the first human being’s experience of the first winter, a story that
has echoes of the story of Chanuka. We will consider the meanings that emerge from the
interplay between these texts and that are embodied in our practice of lighting candles on
Chanuka.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Devora Steinmetz serves on the faculty of the Hebrew College Rabbinical School and the
Mandel Leadership Institute. She is the founder of Beit Rabban, a Jewish day school profiled in
Daniel Pekarsky’s Vision at Work: The Theory and Practice of Beit Rabban. She is the author
of scholarly articles on Talmud, Midrash, and Bible as well as of two books, From Father to
Son: Kinship, Conflict, and Continuity in Genesis and Punishment and Freedom: The Rabbinic
Construction of Criminal Law. She has served on the faculty of Drisha, the Jewish Theological
Seminary, Yeshivat Hadar, and Havruta: a Beit Midrash at Hebrew University.
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