Individuals in a Time of Communal Tragedy
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In times of war, personal tragedy tends to be subsumed by a collective sense of loss and grief. Borrowing a metaphor from a rabbinic passage about the spread of wildfire in Bava Kamma 60a-60b, Elana Stein Hain and Leora Batnitzky, a professor of philosophy and Jewish studies at Princeton University, explore human interconnectedness as it relates to evil in the world. Together they consider the question: during times of communal pain, when is it right, or even necessary, to close ourselves away, and when are we morally bound to participate in the wider community? You can now sponsor an episode of TEXTing. Click HERE to learn more. Episode Source Sheet JOIN OUR EMAIL LIST FOR MORE HARTMAN IDEAS
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