A Bride for One Night: Talmud Tales

Presence and relationship, speech and behavioral norms are all fused in this wondrous narrative.

study of a passage of Talmudic thought that, when penetrated deeply and allowed to penetrate you deeply, yields surprise, insight, and enlightenment.

One of the key questions the Torah addresses is: how do we create associations that honour both self and other, ‘I’ and ‘Thou’?

Torah, like koan study, often reveals itself to us precisely when we come to the limits of our own powers, our capacity to coerce an answer from it by dint of our rationality. This insight had seemed to come upon me from the outside, first as a glimmer of light from the Torah and then as an explosion of it.