Avivah Zornberg Talk "Moses: A Human Life"

Friday, April 20th 2018, 9:30am
Dinner Board Room, Flora Lamson Hewlett Library, 2400 Ridge Road Berkeley, CA 94709

Avivah Zornberg

Moses: 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 does it mean to learn to speak?