“A People’s Multitude is a King’s Splendor:” Communal Practices Beyond Prayer Ayelet Hoffmann LibsonĬollectivism and Individualism in the Time of Plague Jon A. Collective Tragedies and the Politics of Mourning Sara Labaton.Jewish Community and Practice Under Duress Keter and Corona: Perspectives from the Jewish Mystical Tradition Art Green.Love in a Time of Absence: Rashi on Song of Songs and Isolation Devorah Schoenfeld.The Biblical Plagues and Our Plague: An Anthropocentric Theology Chaim Seidler-Feller The Natural Disaster Theology Dilemma David Zvi Kalmanīetween Immanence and Transcendence: Jewish Ideas of God and Suffering Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi Loving God Through Life and Death: An Embodied Theology of Loss Aviva Richman Theodicy and the Slings and Arrows of Outrageous Fortune Gordon Tucker Theological Vertigo in Proximity to Plague Erin Leib SmoklerĬovid-19 and the Theological Challenge of the Arbitrary Shaul Magid Many are looking for mooring from the Jewish tradition in this most disorienting time, and this volume may serve as anchor and inspiration. The hope is that these essays – some scholarly, some homiletic, some personal, some exegetical – will enable discussion within networks of lay people and religious leaders in synagogues, schools, academia, and elsewhere in internet book-clubs worldwide. In this book, a diverse range of thinkers dig into the way that ancient texts have wrestled with mageifah (the Hebrew word for plague that appears in the canon) as a social or legal category explore theological paradigms that grapple with widespread suffering examine liturgy or poetry that emerged from prior plagues investigate how Jewish law is actively reimagining and contesting the limits of community at these times of social distance or ruminate on the ways quarantine, lockdown, and upheaval will reshape Jewish communal life for years to come. Therefore, it is an opportunity for reflection reaching into the reservoir of literature, theology, liturgy, history, sociology, law, story-telling, and Jewish learning to see if there is any light Torah can shed in this dark time. But, at least in our lifetimes, this contemporary period presents unprecedented challenges for sustaining Jewish communities and Jewish meaning.
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This is not the first episode of plague for humanity that Judaism has had to figure out how to navigate. This collection of essays uses Torah – broadly understood to include any canonical Jewish text or tradition – to illuminate, explore, bemoan, or grapple with our current moment of plague.
Winner of the 2021 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD for Modern Jewish Thought and Experience.
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