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lizshayne 's review for:
informative
reflective
medium-paced
I’m trying to decide if I’m glad or annoyed that I only read this book when I’m 2/3s of the way through teaching hilchot Niddah (the laws of menstruation).
As per my policy of not rating books that I read because they directly touch on my work because I’m not sure I can accurately assess it beyond its utility, this one has no rating but also it was really good and interesting and in some ways totally upends how I think about Niddah and in other ways deeply validates it.
I want to give my students the chapter on harchakot for when we learn that topic.
But it also brings home to me just how contingent so much of halakha is.
To what degree are we, as inheritors of this tradition and those meant to act with it now, failing in our willingness to notice the world around is and name its influence. How do we choose what we allow to shape us?
As per my policy of not rating books that I read because they directly touch on my work because I’m not sure I can accurately assess it beyond its utility, this one has no rating but also it was really good and interesting and in some ways totally upends how I think about Niddah and in other ways deeply validates it.
I want to give my students the chapter on harchakot for when we learn that topic.
But it also brings home to me just how contingent so much of halakha is.
To what degree are we, as inheritors of this tradition and those meant to act with it now, failing in our willingness to notice the world around is and name its influence. How do we choose what we allow to shape us?