The Ground Where You Are Standing is Holy: A Jewish Theology of Place
Jill Jacobs
Description
What does it mean to live in a place as a Jew? How does that place, or our choice of it, affect our relationship with God—whether through the place itself or the people we encounter there? What obligations do we have to that place and those people? And what does place mean in a globalized world? In this course, we will examine concepts of space and place in secular and Jewish thought, and we will work to construct a theology of place that helps us to define our spheres of obligation to the world around us.
Jill Jacobs is the author of There Shall Be No Needy: Pursuing Social Justice through Jewish Law and Tradition (Jewish Lights 2009) and the Rabbi-in-Residence of Jewish Funds for Justice. She is currently at work on a book about the theology of place as a framework for effective social justice work, which she began while on sabbatical as a Jerusalem Fellow at the Mandel Leadership Institute. She lives in New York with her husband, Guy Austrian, and their daughter Lior.
Notes
Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this class. All Hebrew texts will be provided together with English translations.
Categories
- Contemporary Issues
- Spiritual and Religious Life
- Afternoon Course