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Please note, this is a draft programme and is subject to change.
Events on 31 Aug & 1 Sept are located in Auckland. Events on 7 & 8 Sept are located in Wellington.

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Sunday, September 8 • 11:45am - 12:45pm
The Man Who Made it Rain: The Rise & Fall of Honi the Circle-Drawer

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Why do miracle-workers draw circles? When does prayer become witchcraft? And how does the greatest rainmaker of his time come to die of unbearable loneliness? Join this intertextual journey through the Bible and Midrash, Hippocrates and Josephus, Nahmanides and the Vilna Gaon, Nietzsche and Agnon, Heschel and Buber, trying to make sense of one of the most poignant stories of the Talmud.
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Gila Fine

Gila Fine is editor in chief of Maggid Books (Koren). She also teaches Aggada at Pardes, exploring the stories of the Talmud through philosophy, literary criticism, psychoanalysis and pop-culture. Gila has previously taught at Hebrew University, TAU and LSJS. Haaretz has called her... Read More →

Sunday September 8, 2019 11:45am - 12:45pm NZST
Shul Wellington Jewish Community Centre
  Text & Tradition