Temple Beth Zion (TBZ) and Our Learning Company, LLC,
will be co-sponsoring a wonderful evening of learning
on January 5, 2006 at 7:30 at TBZ.
Save this date!! Free and open to the public!! No registration is required!!
Date: Thrusday, January 5, 2006
Time: 7:30 PM
Where: TBZ, 1566 Beacon St., Brookline (617-566-8171 ext. 14)
"The Erotic and the Mystical: The Case of Lekhah Dodi"
with Reuven Kimelman
Why does the best-known Shabbat song, Lekhah Dodi, focus on the three S's of Sabbath, Salvation, and Sexuality? How did Jewish mysticism foment a revolution of the romantic in Judaism? Its revolutionary erotic vision of reality is epitomized in the mystical meaning of the Shabbat candles and the singing of
Lekhah Dodi. We will focus on how the feminization of the Sabbath leads to its eroticization as well as on the connection between the marriage metaphor and the salvation of the individual, the people, and all humanity.
After the lecture there will be ample time for discussion and book signing.
Reuven Kimelman is a professor of Talmud, Midrash and liturgy at Brandeis University. He is the author of "The Mystical Meaning of Lekhah Dodi and Kabbalat Shabbat" (published in Hebrew), "The Hidden Poetry of the Jewish Prayerbook" (an audio coursebook recently published by the Brookline-based Our Learning
Company LLC), and the forthcoming "Rhetoric of Jewish Prayer: A Literary and Historical Commentary on the Prayerbook."
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