In the second episode of this season’s This Pardes Life, Rabbanit Nechama Goldman Barash, an Orthodox Jewish feminist who has been studying and teaching Jewish rabbinic and halakhic texts for years, shares her fascinating struggle of holding both a deep love and reverence for Rabbinic texts and Halakha while simultaneously bringing to them a critique born out of a modern, feminist perspective. As she walks us through a text that appears to convey a harsh attitude towards women on the part of the Sages, she demonstrates how close reading and appreciation of irony can yield a reading of the source that makes it meaningful and insightful without apologetics.
This Pardes Life sees Pardes teacher Rabbi Zvi Hirshfield gets up close and personal with fellow teachers and alumni talking about life, texts and Pardes. See www.elmad.pardes.org/thispardeslife for other episodes in this series.
