Biblical Re-readings by Avivah Zornberg

Biblical sources from the re-readings of Avivah Zornberg

February 23, 2009

February 23, 2009

Biblical Re-readings

Avivah Zornberg

1) Seduced into Eden: the Beginning of Desire

Rashi: Bereishit 2:15

Rashi: Bereishit 2:23

Ramban: Bereishit 2:9

Rashi: Bereishit 3:9

Hosea 2:16

Jeremiah 20:7

Rashi: Bereishit 3:15

Pirkei de Rabbi Eliezer 13

Pirkei de Rabbi Eliezer 14

Babylonian Talmud, Hullin 60b

Bereishit Rabbah 20,16

2) Isaac: Blindness and Blessing

Babylonian Talmud, Yevamot 64a

Bereishit Rabbah 65, 5

Pirkei de Rabbi Eliezer 31

Shemot Rabbah 29,3

Bereishit Rabbah 63, 16

Rashi: Bereishit 27:7

Ramban: Bereishit 27:7

Sforno: Bereishit 27:27

Bereishit Rabbah 67, 3

Ramban: Bereishit 27:33

3) "Is it a Good Land or a Bad One" Love and Hate in the Story of the Spies

Rashi: Bamidbar 13:2

Ramban: Bamidbar 13:2

Rashi: Devarim 1:23

Rashi: Bamidbar 16:4

BT Arakhin 15a

Rashi: Bamidbar 14:33

Rashi: Bamidbar 14:13-15

BT Sanhedrin 111a-b

BT Shabbat 55b

Kohelet 9:22

Kohelet 9,2

Vayikra rabbah 20,5

Rashi: Devarim 1:27

Sforno: Bamidbar 14:11

BT Shabbat 31a

Rashi: Shabbat 31a

Rashi: Devarim 29;3

4) After Sinai: Desire in the desert

Ramban: Bamidbar 10:35

Ramban: Bamidbar 11:1

Rashi: Bamidbar 11:1

Rashi: Bamidbar 11:4

Rashi: Bamidbar 11:5

Rashi: Bamidbar 11:10

Shemot Rabbah 42,6

BT, Arakhin 11a

Likutey Moharan 282,2

From a lecture by Avivah Zornberg, compiled and edited by Laura Major

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