“Do Not Grieve Excessively”: Rabbis Mourning Children Between Law And Narrative In Rabbinic Laws Of Mourning And Soloveitchik’S Halakhic Man,
2023
Jewish Theological Seminary
“Do Not Grieve Excessively”: Rabbis Mourning Children Between Law And Narrative In Rabbinic Laws Of Mourning And Soloveitchik’S Halakhic Man, Shira Billet
Journal of Textual Reasoning
In “‘Do not grieve excessively’: Rabbis Mourning Children Between Law and Narrative in Rabbinic Laws of Mourning and Soloveitchik’s Halakhic Man,” Shira Billet highlights a rabbinic literary trope of rabbis who focus on performing commandments and teaching Torah upon losing a child and analyzes it in relation to a modern example of this trope found in Joseph Soloveitchik’s Halakhic Man. Although such stories of diminished mourning for children have been understood negatively by modern readers as touchstones of a general Jewish ethos that prioritizes the observance of commandments over the love of children, this article offers a framework …
“If You Seek It Like Silver”: Illness And Poverty As Metaphors For Obligation In Israel Salanter,
2023
Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania
“If You Seek It Like Silver”: Illness And Poverty As Metaphors For Obligation In Israel Salanter, Sarah Zager
Journal of Textual Reasoning
This article analyzes the role of experiences of illness and poverty in the work of Israel Salanter (1810-1883). It argues that Salanter uses these two experiences, and the emotional responses that they engender, as paradigms for understanding the experience of being obligated to study, and then, change, one’s character. The article shows that obligation played a central role in Salanter’s thought, but that his account of obligation is articulated not against a newly-available form of modern autonomy, but instead, against forms of constraint created by poverty and illness.
“Heaviness Of The Head” And The Unbearable Lightness Of Rejoicing,
2023
Columbia University
“Heaviness Of The Head” And The Unbearable Lightness Of Rejoicing, Erez Degolan
Journal of Textual Reasoning
This essay draws on affect theory to read a pair of rabbinic terms: koved rosh, literally “heaviness of the head,” and its antonym, qalut rosh, or “lightness of the head.” The affective dimensions of these terms have often been overlooked. This essay argues, however, that they denote, for the rabbis, bodily experiences that epitomize contrasting emotional states, namely, mourning (koved rosh) and rejoicing (qalut rosh). The essay concludes with potential implications of the new understanding of the terms for the study of rabbinic prayer.
Introduction,
2023
Towson University
Introduction, Deborah Barer, Mark Randall James
Journal of Textual Reasoning
No abstract provided.
Shame, Blindness, And The Face Of The Other: Emotions In And Out Of Rabbinic Legal Texts,
2023
The Jewish Theological Seminary
Shame, Blindness, And The Face Of The Other: Emotions In And Out Of Rabbinic Legal Texts, Sarah Wolf
Journal of Textual Reasoning
This article sheds light on the social nature of shame in rabbinic law in its analysis of the Babylonian Talmud’s discussions of legally actionable shame (boshet) and the emphasis therein on visual experience in defining both shame and legal obligation. The article highlights a connection within rabbinic thought between sightedness and what it means to be fully aware of and responsible for others. By exploring these interactions between sight, obligation, and emotion, this article reveals that the rabbinic understanding of vision is at the core of their conception of both the affective and legal dimensions of shame.
The Function Of Subjectivity In Textual Reasoning,
2023
Florida State University
The Function Of Subjectivity In Textual Reasoning, Martin Kavka
Journal of Textual Reasoning
No abstract provided.
Textual Reasoning As Social Performance: Meeting Over The Text,
2023
St. Bonaventure University
Textual Reasoning As Social Performance: Meeting Over The Text, Jim Fodor
Journal of Textual Reasoning
No abstract provided.
Responses To Cohen, Gibbs, And Ochs,
2023
William & Mary
Responses To Cohen, Gibbs, And Ochs, Hyam Maccoby
Journal of Textual Reasoning
No abstract provided.
Fellowship, Recognition And/Or Death,
2023
Yeshiva University
Fellowship, Recognition And/Or Death, Shalom Carmy
Journal of Textual Reasoning
No abstract provided.
Texts, Reason, And Homo Liber, Or What I Have Learned I’Ve Learned Through Textual Reasoning, Together,
2023
Boston University
Texts, Reason, And Homo Liber, Or What I Have Learned I’Ve Learned Through Textual Reasoning, Together, Michael Zank
Journal of Textual Reasoning
No abstract provided.
A Response To Peter Ochs,
2023
Syracuse University
A Response To Peter Ochs, Zachary Braiterman
Journal of Textual Reasoning
No abstract provided.
Textual Reasoning,
2023
U of Toronto, Jewish Studies Dept.
Before The Law: Reflections On Textual (Un)Reasoning,
2023
New York University
Before The Law: Reflections On Textual (Un)Reasoning, Elliot Wolfson
Journal of Textual Reasoning
No abstract provided.
The Ground Of Textual Reasoning: A Response To Robert Gibbs,
2023
William & Mary
The Ground Of Textual Reasoning: A Response To Robert Gibbs, Randi Rashkover
Journal of Textual Reasoning
No abstract provided.
The Brokenness (And Sacrality) Of The Human Voice: A Response To Aryeh Cohen,
2023
Dartmouth University
The Brokenness (And Sacrality) Of The Human Voice: A Response To Aryeh Cohen, Shaul Magid
Journal of Textual Reasoning
No abstract provided.
Response To “Why Textual Reasoning?”,
2023
Princeton University
Response To “Why Textual Reasoning?”, Leora Batnitzky
Journal of Textual Reasoning
No abstract provided.
Behind The Mechitsa: Reflections On The Rules Of Textual Reasoning,
2023
University of Virginia
Behind The Mechitsa: Reflections On The Rules Of Textual Reasoning, Peter Ochs
Journal of Textual Reasoning
No abstract provided.
Why Textual Reasoning?,
2023
American Jewish University
Why Textual Reasoning?, Aryeh Cohen
Journal of Textual Reasoning
No abstract provided.
Why Textual Reasoning?,
2023
University of Toronto
Why Textual Reasoning?, Robert Gibbs
Journal of Textual Reasoning
No abstract provided.
Introducing The Journal Of Textual Reasoning: Rereading Judaism After Modernity,
2023
Colgate University
Introducing The Journal Of Textual Reasoning: Rereading Judaism After Modernity, Steven Kepnes
Journal of Textual Reasoning
No abstract provided.
