Darkness Envelops Me
Dr. Devora Steinmetz
Devora Steinmetz serves on the faculty of the Hebrew College Rabbinical School and the Mandel Leadership Institute. She is the founder of Beit Rabban, a Jewish day school profiled in Daniel Pekarsky’s Vision at Work: The Theory and Practice of Beit Rabban. She is the author of scholarly articles on Talmud, Midrash, and Bible as well as of two books, From Father to Son: Kinship, Conflict, and Continuity in Genesis and Punishment and Freedom: The Rabbinic Construction of Criminal Law. She has served on the faculty of Drisha, the Jewish Theological Seminary, Yeshivat Hadar, and Havruta: a Beit Midrash at Hebrew University.
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The Talmud tells about the origins of Chanukkah in a way that closely parallels a talmudic legend about Adam’s first encounter with darkness. As Chanukkah begins, we will study these talmudic texts to illuminate our own encounter with the darkness and with the holiday of Chanukkah.