"#Ziegler’s Ruth: From Alienation to Monarchy is a 534-page book on a four-chapter #megillah. The disproportion is the point. Ziegler, a faculty member at #HerzogCollege and teacher at #MatanandMidreshetMoriah, spent more than two decades teaching #MegillatRuth in #bateimidrash before committing these #shiurim to print. What she has produced is not a work of academic #biblical criticism.

It is a work of #Torah, one that happens to deploy #literary tools in service of the sacred text’s deeper meaning. The methodology she calls “#literary-#theological,” a term she credits to #Rabbi #ShalomCarmy, fulfills something Rabbi #AharonLichtenstein called for in a 1962 lecture at #SternCollege: the application of close reading and literary analysis to #Tanach, not to evaluate the text but to hear it more clearly. “I have eschewed a pretense of academic detachment,” she writes...”

https://www.jpost.com/judaism/article-895368

🐟📜 Un Livre d’Esther glissé dans un poisson d’argent : voilà le genre d’objet qui prouve que l’art rituel sait aussi avoir de l’esprit.
Cette megillah du XIXe siècle, venue d’Europe orientale, était destinée à Pourim, et la forme du poisson renvoie au signe de Pisces / Dagim, associé au mois d’Adar. Une belle idée symbolique, avec un petit air de trésor discret.

#Judaica #Pourim #Megillah #ArtReligieux #ObjetAncien #Insolite

Shalom Friends! Welcome to #TheReelsMegillah Episode 7: Shalom, Enemy 😤
In which #QueenEsther finally reveals the truth, and #Haman, belatedly, realizes exactly how badly he f*cked up. #Purim #Megillah 😱👑
#Judaism #jewishlearning #jewishholiday

https://youtu.be/DtB_DZvBuLc

Shalom friends! Welcome back to #TheReelsMegillah Episode 6: FAFO
The king finally watches back the palace vlog, Mordechai is on a horse, Esther hosts her (2nd) party of special magnificence, and Haman discovers what the term #Fafo means 😱😂 #Purim #Megillah

https://youtu.be/G7c76GKEJio

Shalom friends! Welcome back to #TheReelsMegillah Episode 5: Fear is the Mind K!ller. #QueenEsther risks her life to save her people, while Haman is upset that Mordechai is stomping all over his #VillianEra funtimes 😭 #Purim #Megillah

https://youtu.be/_O4yCcJizjQ

Shalom friends,
Welcome back to #TheReelsMegillah Episode 4: Breaking News. #Haman is high off that haterade, and #Mordechai plays his most important card to force #Esther to act - #Jewish guilt. 😨
#Purim #Megillah

https://youtu.be/BQQoPNi-SoY

Shalom friends!
Welcome to #TheReelsMegillah, Episode 3: Idolatrous Bling ✨
Get to know #Haman, the villain of the #Purim #megillah who is, to quote Jean-Ralphio in Parks and Rec, “The worstttt” 🎵 👎

https://youtu.be/3Ia6mWQDbco

Shalom friends! Welcome to #TheReelsMegillah Episode 8: The Conclusion! In which Achashverosh is forced to do something he’s never tried before (think) while #Esther and #Mordechai rush to save their people. Chag #Purim sameach! #Megillah #JewishHolidays

https://youtu.be/JVgCvBZ7XPg

Shalom Friends! Welcome to #TheReelsMegillah Episode 7: Shalom, Enemy 😤
In which #QueenEsther finally reveals the truth, and #Haman, belatedly, realizes exactly how badly he f*cked up. #Purim #Megillah 😱👑
#Judaism #jewishlearning #jewishholiday

https://youtu.be/DtB_DZvBuLc