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So, I mean, first of all, thank you to Dr. Yitz Landes for putting this volume together and publishing it with footnotes and giving me access, by proxy, to all of these incredible people--the Roshei Yeshiva of Gush and your father.
It was such a fascinating and moving read to learn more about two people I looked up to from afar and, specifically, getting a sense of their theology and how they see both God's will and our obligation
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And there's a part of me that's furious that this kind of Torah wasn't really accessible to me because of my gender AND because no one told me that this kind of thinking and relationship existed. I had good teachers and the paucity of what I was exposed to because of my gender never ceases to anger me.
And the way R. Lichtenstein talks about the intellectual work of learning Torah as THE work of a Jew in the world, something that is attributed to his mother as well as to his teachers, just makes me wonder what he does with the non-obligation that women have in learning Torah. How do you square that? And you can see the 20th century work to nuance that p'tor/prohibition and yet AND YET.
I have a lot of feelings and this book, like so many, is the catalyst rather than the cause.
It was such a fascinating and moving read to learn more about two people I looked up to from afar and, specifically, getting a sense of their theology and how they see both God's will and our obligation
----
And there's a part of me that's furious that this kind of Torah wasn't really accessible to me because of my gender AND because no one told me that this kind of thinking and relationship existed. I had good teachers and the paucity of what I was exposed to because of my gender never ceases to anger me.
And the way R. Lichtenstein talks about the intellectual work of learning Torah as THE work of a Jew in the world, something that is attributed to his mother as well as to his teachers, just makes me wonder what he does with the non-obligation that women have in learning Torah. How do you square that? And you can see the 20th century work to nuance that p'tor/prohibition and yet AND YET.
I have a lot of feelings and this book, like so many, is the catalyst rather than the cause.