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Parah: Why We Study Torah

Category: Religion & Spirituality
Duration: 00:18:27
Publish Date: 2018-05-22 00:13:00
Description:

Cecilia Haendler introduces masekhet Parah, unpacking the ritual of the red heifer and exploring how it creates a mysterious and powerful bridge.

Cecilia Haendler, born in Florence, Italy, lives in Paris with her husband Yair and is doing a PhD on gendered metaphorical language in Tannaitic literature at the Freie Universität Berlin. For the series A Feminist Commentary on the Babylonian Talmud she is writing about Hallah, Orlah and Bikkurim. She has worked as a research associate in the project A Digital Synopsis of the Mishnah and Tosefta and she has learned at the Nishmat Center for Advanced Torah Study.

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