A Talmudic Heroine
The Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic: The Tale of Yalta the Shrew
Wed / Oct 6 / 1:00 pm / Online
Gila Fine and Rabbi Savenor
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How did the ancient world view the difference between the male and female body? And what possessed Yalta to smash 400 bottles of her husband’s wine? The comic tale of Yalta, read through Aristotle and Euripides, William Shakespeare and William Congreve, Charlotte Brontë and Jean Rhys, Adrienne Rich and R. Kook.
Gila Fine is Editor-in-Chief of Maggid Books (Koren Publishers Jerusalem). She is also a teacher of Aggada, exploring the tales of the Talmud through philosophy, literary criticism, psychoanalysis, and pop culture. Fine is a faculty member of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies and the Nachshon Project.