Have lunch at Kesher and hear a lecture by Dr. Avivah Zornberg!

Kesher Israel is proud to welcome Dr. Avivah Zornberg as our next scholar in residence on the weekend of May 2-3! 

Dr. Zornberg will speak at 11:45am, after Kiddush, on Shabbat morning, followed by a lunch at 1:15pm. Babysitting will be available during the lecture if there is enough interest. Register at www.kesher.org/avivah_zornberg to attend Shabbat lunch!

Lecture topics:

11:45am Shiur: Bewilderments: The Narrative of the Spies 

Dr. Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg was born in London and grew up in Glasgow, Scotland, where her father was a Rabbi and the head of the Rabbinical Court. She studied with him from childhood; he was her most important teacher of Torah. She holds a BA and PhD in English Literature from Cambridge University. After teaching English literature at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, she turned to teaching Torah. For the past twenty-five 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 is the author of The Murmuring Deep: Reflections on the Biblical Unconscious (Schocken 2009), Genesis: The Beginning of Desire (for which she won the National Jewish Book Award, JPS 1995), and The Particulars of Rapture: Reflections on Exodus, (Doubleday 2001). She travels widely, lecturing in Jewish, academic and psychoanalytic settings.

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