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?