Pregnancy and labor in Jewish thought will be the theme of an open evening presenting the scholarship of the Hartman Institute’s
Seder Nashim beit midrash program on Judaism and gender, Wednesday, June 17, from 18:00 to 21:00 (6-9 pm). The evening’s lectures at the Shalom Hartman Institute will be in Hebrew.
In this first year of the Seder Nashim program, the participants studied texts and heard lectures on pregnancy and labor in Jewish thought. As the year comes to an end, some of the fruits of this research and learning will be presented to the public at the public session.
After an introduction by the program coordinators
Tsippi Kaufman and Rotem Wagner, lectures will be delivered by students in the program. These include a feminist reading of
Mishna Nidda , Ch. 3, a different look at Vayikra, Ch. 12 (
Parashat Tazria ) and a rereading of Chaim Yosef Brenner’s Jewish birth story, “Paamim.” The final session will include learning in
beit midrash style of two Talmudic texts, in Yevamot and Kiddushin.
