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Dedicated to those held hostage
The Passover Seder commemorates one of the pivotal moments in Jewish history, the redemption from Slavery. Although the Bible provides the origins for it, the talmudic rabbis filled in the details, creating step by step guidelines for this timeless ritual. The result is the Seder, a unique blend of study, remembrance and re-enactment.
In this series of sessions, we’ll continue our examination of the tenth perek of Pesachim and focus on new issues. These include women’s obligations in the various Passover rituals, why we eat charoset, and how the consumption of maror helped spark a major innovation in Talmudic law about intention in mitzvot.
May our learning be a merit for those being held hostage to experience another redemption.
Dr. Shana Strauch Schick is a lecturer in Rabbinic Literature in the Multidisciplinary Department of Jewish Studies at Bar Ilan University and teaches Talmud and Jewish Law at Drisha Institute, NY. She has a PhD in Talmud from Bernard Revel Graduate School, Yeshiva University and studied in Stern College’s GPATS, from 2002-2007. She’s the author of Intention in Talmudic Law: Between Thought and Deed (Brill, 2021). Her upcoming monograph is entitled Women in Rabbinic Law and Narrative: Vying Currents in Babylonian and Palestinian Texts.
