Selichot

Saturday, September 5, 2015

• Study Session and Dessert Reception: 9:00 p.m.
• Service: 11:00 p.m. Youth Chapel

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Saturday, September 5, 2015
9:00 p.m.
with Rabbi Michael L. Morgan,
Senator Jerahmiel S. and Carole S. Grafstein, Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Studies, University of Toronto, and Chancellor’s Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Studies, Indiana University (emeritus).
“Repentance, Forgiveness, and Responsibility: Emmanuel Levinas’s Famous Talmudic Reading”

In 1963, at a meeting of French Jewish intellectuals on the topic of “Forgiveness,”  Levinas gave a Talmudic reading called “Toward the Other.”  The text he discussed is from the Talmud, Yoma 85a-b and 87a-b.  This famous text raises interesting questions about repentance, forgiveness, and interpersonal relations.

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