November 1 — God’s Echo: Exploring Scripture with Midrash
Finally a book that invites the non-scholar to understand midrash, a 2000-year-old method of rabbinic interpretation of the Bible that allowed earlier generations to read their lives into the sacred narrative.
When: Thursday, November 1, 7:30 pm
Where: Jewish community Center Laikin Auditorium 6701 Hoover Rd., Indianapolis, IN 46260
Between 400 and 1200 C.E., a group of rabbis expounded on the text of the Bible, making it relevant to their times and to subsequent readers. This extensive collection of explanations and interpretations is known collectively as Midrash. Sasso, one of the first women ever ordained as a rabbi, considers Midrash “both a product, a body of literature… and a process… that continues to the present day” and has assembled a themed collection of text, extrapolations and guided self-evaluation in the hopes that more people will see not only how the ancients still speak to us but how our own experiences make us writers of Midrash as well.
Sandy Eisenberg Sasso is the best-selling author of eleven children’s books. God’s Echo is her first book for adults. She earned her Doctor of Ministry degree from Christian Theological Seminary. Sandy Sasso and her husband, Dennis, have been rabbis of Congregation Beth-El Zedeck in Indianapolis since 1977.
Know before you go … The Journal of Contemporary Midrash has some thought provoking excerpts that would provide background for Rabbi Sasso’s talk.
If this sounds interesting, check out … Some of th eother explorations of Judaism in an interfaith context, such as the final Abrahamic “trialogue” September 18; Three Centuries of Jewish Voices in America October 24; Can Tzedakah, Tithing, and Zakat Save the World? November 7; Three Faiths: One Voice November 7; Spiritual Giving and Receiving: An Interfaith Peace-Prayer Service November 13.
September 12th, 2007 at 4:29 am
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