Avivah Zornberg

This is Avivah Zornberg's website.  To contact her or invite her to speak, write to zornberg@netvision.net.il. 
Avivah Zornberg is now on her American lecture tour. See her itinerary below.
Her next lecture tour will be in April-May 2013.

Order her new DVDs from http://www.imjl.com/ 

You will find here her teaching schedules in Israel and abroad, book reviews, videos and audios.

To order Avivah's new book  THE MURMURING DEEP: Reflections on the Biblical Unconscious (Schocken) Now in paperback:
 http://www.amazon.com/Murmuring-Deep-Reflections-Biblical-Unconscious/dp/080521206X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1316319716&sr=1-1

See all her books on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_6?field-keywords=avivah+zornberg&url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&sprefix=Avivah

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/avivah-zornberg?keyword=avivah+zornberg&store=book

Her next book, on the Book of Numbers,  will be published by Schocken in 2014.

See BOOK REVIEWS page (click above) for reviews of Avivah's first two books on Genesis and Exodus.
:The Beginning of Desire: Reflections on Genesis, (Schocken)
http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Desire-Avivah-Gottlieb-Zornberg/dp/0385483376

The Particulars of Rapture: Reflections on Exodus (Schocken)
http://www.amazon.com/Particulars-Rapture-Reflections-Exodus/dp/0385491530/ref=pd_sim_b_1

See her BIO page for a list of further publications.

Avivah’s teaching schedule:
In Israel:Avivah will not teach in Israel from
March 25 to May 24. Classes end June 21.

Mondays 7:30pm Israel Center 22 Keren HaYesod, Jerusalem 02-5667787
Wednesdays 9am Israel Center 22 Keren HaYesod
Wednesdays  8:15pm  Yakar in Tel Aviv,   
02-5612310  No more classes in Tel Aviv until further notice.
Yakar-Ateret Zvi             6 Yericho st                 Tel Aviv
03-5463555    yakar.telaviv@gmail.com        www.yakar.org
Thursdays  Matan 10:15am  30 Rashbag Street tel 5944555.
Classes are 90 minutes.
Spring 2012 Lecture Tour April 19 to May 21
See lecture topics below by #
April 19, NYC 7pm #1 JCC  Manhattan http://www.jccmanhattan.org/featured-programs?page=cat-content&progID=24863#/JJLAVI00W2
 JCC in Manhattan 334   Amsterdam Ave NY, 646-505-4405
April 20-21  Cong. B'nai Avraham, #2#3 Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn
Shabbat lunch and between mincha &  maariv
117 Remsen Street (Clinton and Henry streets), Brooklyn, NY 11201   (718) 596-4840 
April 22  NYC Columbia University Yavne 7pm #5
Kraft Center, Columbia/Barnard's Hillel: 606 W. 115th St. in Manhattan. 
April 23 Chicago, #5  7:30pm The Sidney & Frances Avner Torah Learning Center of Northbrook    www.torahlearningcenter.com
2548  Jasper Court, Suite 201 * Northbrook, IL  60062     tel 847-2727255 
April 24 Augustana College, Rock Island, IL #5  7:30pm Stone Lectureship in Judaism
Wallenberg Hall  Denkmann Building, 3520 7th Avenue,
April 26 San Jose APJCC Center for Jewish Life and Learning #2  7:30pm
Addison-Penzak Jewish Community Center 14855 Oka Road, Los Gatos, CA 95032 * 408.357.7492
April 27-28 Palo Alto, Congregation Emek Beracha #2#3
Cong. Emek Beracha  4102 El Camino Real (650) 857-1800/(650) 857-0601 Fax
Friday evening 8:15-9:30pm, Shabbat afternoon: 5:45-7:00 pm  beruria@gmail.com
April 29  JCC East Bay, #6 Berkeley 4pm
1414 Walnut Street  Phone: 510-848-0237  sallyf@jcceastbay.org
April 30 Berkeley GTU #4 Graduate Theological Union 9am
MUDD 100, PacificSchool of Religion, 1798  Scenic Ave., 510.649.2482     
Email: cjs@gtu.edu
April 30 JCCSF #3    7pm
 Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
3200 California  Street, Phone: 415.292.1299 ext.1163 · Fax: 415.276.1550
David Green  dgreen@jccsf.org
May 1, LA Sinai Temple #6   7:30pm http://www.sinaitemple.org/education/speakers_lecturers.php
10400 Wilshire Blvd. T: (310) 481-3243 | F: (310) 474-6801 Rebeka Small      rsmall@sinaitemple.org
May 2  UCLA Hillel #4   7:30pm
574 Hilgard Avenue 310-208-3081 Spiegel Auditorium
http://ucla.hillel.org/zornberg2012.aspx
May 5 NYC HIR Riverdale, #2 
3700 Henry Hudson Parkway, Bronx, NY  10463 Tel: (718) 796-4730
May 7 Boston Ma'ayan #3 http://www.maayan.org/
Maimonides School, 34 Philbrick Road, Brookline, at 8:00 PM
May 8 Boston CJP
Temple Shalom #2   11am  175 Temple Street, West Newton,  Main: 617-332-9550 |
Temple Emunah #6  7pm  9 Piper Road   Lexington, Phone: (781) 861-0300 
May 12   Mt. Kisco #1 #7
15 Stewart Place, Mt. Kisco, New York 10549
Phone: 914-242-7460 office@mkhc.org
May 16  Kaplen JCC on the Palisades#2 Tenafly, NJ 7:30pm
411 East Clinton Ave   Tenafly,  NJ 07670    201.569.7900  
Steve Golden  [mailto:sgolden@jccotp.org] 
May 17  Skirball Adult Education,#6 Temple Emanuel http://www.adultjewishlearning.org/
May 18-20 Cleveland, B'nai Jeshurun Congregation, #2#3#4 
27501 Fairmount Blvd. Pepper Pike, Ohio   ph 216.831.6555 
http://www.bnaijeshuruncongregation.org/
May 21 NYC Lincoln Square Synagogue, #3
200 Amsterdam Avenue  Shelly Rudoff Memorial Lecture 7:30pm
May 22 Return to Israel

May 2012 Lecture Tour Topics: 
1. 'She was what he had missed:' On the Loss of Women
We will discuss Jacob's relations to the women in his life: Rachel, Deborah, Dinah and – most significantly – Rebekah. Tragedy befalls all of them, soon after Jacob returns home after a long absence. The midrash detects a repressed theme of delay underlying these narratives. Jacob's wish for peace or wholeness may constitute a wish rather than a reality in his inner world.
2.      'And I am a stranger:' Becoming Ruth
Ruth is a stranger in more senses than one. Who is this unknown woman who is destined to become mother of royalty? What is the process by which she finds her way into a foreign and unwelcoming culture and religious tradition?How does destiny come about?

3.'Let me see that good land:' The Story of a Human Life
'Moses fails to enter Canaan not because his life is too short but because it is a human life.' (Kafka) 
 Moses' fundamental sense of himself as 'not a man of words' comes to a poignant consummation in the long speeches he makes to the people before he dies. What is his purpose in these speeches, and particularly in his narrative about his desire to 'cross over to the other side'(of the Jordan)?

4.   Letter from an Unknown Woman: Joseph's Dream
Joseph dreams provocative dreams; his brothers' hatred grows because of them; Jacob apparently dismisses them. But according to Freud, all dreams contain a 'navel,' a spot that defies understanding, that 'reaches into the unknown.' In the midrash, that unfathomable element in the lives of Jacob and Joseph is represented by Rachel, the 'unknown woman' in their narrative. Literature, film, and psychoanalytic thought will enrich our study.

5. 'Why did Sarah laugh?'
We will discuss the theme of feasting and laughter in the narrative of Abraham and Sarah. Are their responses to the promise of miraculous birth essentially different? Material from midrashic, literary and psychoanalytic sources will enrich our exploration. 

6. Through the Looking Glass: Women and Redemption
We will explore the far-ranging implications of an extraordinary midrash about a woman, a man, and a mirror in the killing fields of Egypt.
7. The Murmuring Deep
 We will discuss Moses’ speech inhibition as a pivotal issue in the Exodus narrative. What is the nature of
  this ‘impediment’? We will look at midrashic and hassidic sources, as well as philosophical and psychoanalytic thinking on the role of voice in
communication.

Reviews of The Murmuring Deep:
The Forward
Interview with Jake Marmur: http://www.forward.com/articles/104035/

Review by Ilana M. Blumberg  The Other Side of Silence: Listening Into the Bible  http://www.forward.com/articles/104049/   See BOOK REVIEWS page. 

See also http://blogs.forward.com/the-arty-semite/144626/


Tikkun
Review by David Shasha PLUMBING THE PSYCHOLOGICAL DEPTHS OF HUMANITY
http://www.tikkun.org/article.php/nov_dec_09_shasha

Jewish Journal
Zornberg Shines Light on Biblical Silences by  Rabbi David Wolpe
http://www.jewishjournal.com/books/article/zornberg_shines_light_on_biblical_silences_20091208/

Jerusalem Post feature article about Avivah
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?apage=1&cid=1245184865773&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

JBOOKS   by Jill Hammer
http://www.jbooks.com/nonfiction/index/NF_Hammer_Zornberg.htm

See BOOK REVIEWS page by clicking at the top of this page.