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Rabbi Jeffrey Saks
Agnon's Days of Awe: Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur in Agnon's Stories, September 18 & 25Sunday 5:30PM add this shiur Course Description Agnon's Days of Awe with Rabbi Jeffrey Saks of WebYeshiva.org and co-sponsored by Lincoln Square Synagogue, NY. Aside from S.Y. Agnon's best selling volume "Yamim Noraim" ("Days of Awe" - An anthology of Torah sources on Rosh HaShana and Yom Kippur) the Nobel laureate featured the High Holy Days in many of his most enigmatic tales. In this two-part series we will look at some of these short stories from a literary perspective, while unraveling the "intertexts" of classical Jewish sources from which Agnon drew, and explore the resonances between text and mastertext.
Stories will be read in English translation, with references to the original Hebrew text - but Hebrew fluency is not required to participate.
Participate in the course live in Agnon's own house in Talpiot, Jerusalem, or via the simultaneous, interactive, online broadcast at WebYeshiva.org (sessions will be recorded and archived for those unable to join in "real time").
Sundays, September 18 and 25 at 5:30 pm (Jerusalem time).
About Rabbi Jeffrey Saks Rabbi Jeffrey Saks is the founding Director of ATID―The Academy for Torah Initiatives and Directions in Jewish Education, in Jerusalem. An editorial board member of the journal Tradition, Rabbi Saks authored Spiritualizing Halakhic Education (Mandel Foundation) and edited Wisdom From All My Teachers: Challenges and Initiatives in Contemporary Torah Education (Urim). He is a graduate of Yeshiva University (BA, MA, Smicha) and participated in the Jerusalem Fellows program for senior Jewish educators at the Mandel Institute. He has taught at the Yeshiva University High School for Girls and Yeshivat Hamivtar.
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For our second session we'll read Agnon's surreal tale of a squandered Yom Kipppur entitled "Pi Shnayim".
For our first of two sessions on S.Y. Agnon's writings about the High Holy Days, we'll read his short story "Etzel Hemdat" - available at accompanying links in Hebrew and English translation. Please try to read it in advance of our session on Sunday, September 18.
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