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Behind The Veil with Ziva Hassenfeld

Behind the Veil: An inside look at the passover story through the eyes of it’s main protagonist, Moses

One of the best ways to get inside a story is to get inside one character’s perspective- their heart, soul and experience. This three-part class will tell the biblical Pesach story- of exodus and redemption- through the personal and often overlooked story of its protagonist, Moshe. Torah scholar, Dr. Aviva Zornberg reminds us that Moses, according to the biblical account, is a “biographical challenge.” Lucky for us, we have two wonderful tools with which to mine his story- the ‘supplementary’ material found in midrashic texts and the poetic (albeit enigmatic) form of the biblical text itself. Join Professor Ziva R. Hassenfeld for this three-part session where we tell the Pesach story from Moshe’s viewpoint.