Talk: “The Women in the Talmud: wise, pious and rebellious” [] Jewish Cultural and Community Center – JC3
Event Category: Presentations/Discussions
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Please join us for a talk by Rabino Uriel Romano
when he presents his book:“The Women in the Talmud:wise, pious and rebellious”Friday, February 21
10:00 amJC3
Queens that convert to Judaism? Intimate encounters between Roman midwives and great rabbis? Wives who disguise themselves as prostitutes? Feminists of the third century CE? The Talmud, the most studied and revered book of Judaism after the Torah (Pentateuch), is a monumental and encyclopedic compilation of laws, customs, discussions, traditions but also stories, stories. In the more than 2,700 pages of the Talmud there are thousands of stories, some of a whole page, others of a paragraph and others of just one line. The main protagonists of these stories are usually rabbis in meetings with other colleagues or with unsuspected characters; however, in the Talmud, among these thousands of stories, we find a handful of stories where women have a leading role in the story. Women who speak, who argue, who disguise themselves, who seduce, who cheat, who teach, who cry.The talk is in English. Suggested donation: 200 members, 250 non-members.
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