Appropriately Subversive: Fidelity and Critique in Modern Jewish Life




Mechon Hadar Online Learning show

Summary: R. Abraham Joshua Heschel taught us that "in the realm of the spirit only he who is a pioneer is able to be an heir." Yet he also insisted that "only he who is an heir is qualified to be an pioneer." Join us as Tova Hartman and Shai Held explore whether and how, in this day and age, we can combine deep fidelity to tradition, on the one hand, and openness to deep critique of it, on the other.