Let Me See That Good Land: The Story of a Human Life
Dr. Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg is the author of several books and articles including The Murmuring Deep: Reflections on the Biblical Unconscious, Genesis: The Beginning of Desire, and the forthcoming Book of Numbers (Schocken, 2014). She holds a BA and PhD in English Literature from Cambridge University. After teaching English literature at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, she turned to teaching Torah and has taught in Jerusalem at Matan, Yakar, Pardes and the Jerusalem College for Adults. She holds a Visiting Lectureship at the London School of Jewish Studies. She travels widely, lecturing in Jewish, academic and psychoanalytic settings.
Click here to access podcasts recorded by Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg.
Moses’ fundamental sense of himself as ‘not a man of words’ comes to a poignant consummation in the long speeches he makes to the people before he dies. What is his purpose in these speeches, and particularly in his narrative about his desire to ‘cross over to the other side’ (of the Jordan)?
This Stanley Rudoff Memorial High Holidays Lecture, taught by Dr. Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, is sponsored by the extended Rudoff family in memory of Stanley Rudoff z”l.
It was originally recorded on 05/01/2012.