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Torah

From the Voice of God to the Pens of Men: Different Ways of Understanding Revelation

Hosted By: The Florence Melton School of Adult Jewish Learning

Was the Torah Divinely reveled? Written by men? Join the debate! Is the Torah the word of God, given on Mount Sinai? Or does it contain the words of men passed on through oral tradition? Is the Torah from the Divine or divinely inspired?

Join Yael Weinstein and grapple with these questions as you explore texts in a variety of ways and discover biblical revelation from ancient documents through to modern hypotheses.

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Teacher

Yael Weinstein

Yael Weinstein, M.A., Director of Community and Online Learning, has been an educator and director of Adult Education programs since 2009 when she joined the Melton community in Colorado. Before joining Melton, she earned her Master of Arts degree in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University in 2006, focusing on the topics of Antisemitism and Jewish Identity. While at Brandeis, Yael had the opportunity to work as a teaching assistant for Dennis Ross, former US Ambassador to Israel, for his course on the Arab-Israeli conflict. Yael is the author of the Crossroads of Jewish History course and has revised Beyond Borders: A History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. In addition to her faculty and curriculum work, Yael was the Director of Adult Jewish Education at CAJE in Colorado and the Director of Melton at the Jewish Federation of Greater Orlando.
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Host

Melton

The Florence Melton School of Adult Jewish Learning

Melton is a pluralistic Jewish educational network that engages adult learners in accessible study of Jewish texts and ideas.
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Bible

Women and Revelation

When Moses altered the message given to him by God, he cut women out of the revelation at Sinai.

Now when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand – when he came down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him. When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to approach him. But Moses called to them, so Aaron and all the leaders of the community came back to him, and Moses spoke to them. After this all the Israelites approached, and he commanded them all that the Lord had spoken to him on Mount Sinai. When Moses finished speaking with them, he would put a veil on his face. (Exodus, Chapter 34, 29-33). Woodcut after a drawing by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (German painter, 1794 - 1872) from the "Große Haus-Bilder-Bibel (Large House Pictures Bible)" by Dr. Martin Luther. Published by J. Ebner, Ulm (1877)

Shavuot

Revelation at Sinai

The giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai is among the most significant events in Jewish tradition.

Study

Different Perspectives on the Authorship of the Torah

Literary, historical, and theological perspectives on whether the Torah is divine, human, or something in between