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“The Torah is not in Heaven” - Judaism as an Interpretive Culture

Date: Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Time: 18:00
Place: Judiska Biblioteket, Wahrendorffsgatatan 3B, Stockholm

What is tradition? Who decides which interpretation is the "right" one? How is tradition transmitted from one generation to the next? And if everything is a question of interpretation – what is the 'truth'?

We will pursue these questions through texts from the written and the oral Torah.

Dr. Rachel Livneh-Freudenthal currently serves as academic adviser in the Leo Baeck Institute for the Study of the History and Culture of the German-speaking Jewry. Her fields of research include the emergence of the Science of Judaism, Modern Jewish Thought, Judaism as culture, and Jewish Hermeneutics.

In cooperation with the Great Synagogue in Stockholm.
Register at alexander.freudenthal@jfst.se