Lesson 1: The Memory of Crossroads
1. Lesson Goals: UNDERSTANDING WHAT THIS COURSE IS ABOUT:
i. Understand difference between history and memory.
ii. Understand how memory affects our identity
iii. Focus is not on facts and dates as much as recurring themes
evident throughout Jewish history, and on specific crossroads.
HISTORY MEMORY
ACADEMIC PERSONAL
NO WORD IN HEBREW ZACHOR- A MITZVAH- SACRED
TRANSMITTED THROUGH CHRONICLE TRANSMITTED THROUGH
RITUAL, MYTH, STORIES
STRIVES FOR OBJECTIVITY SUBJECTIVE
COMPREHENSIVE SELECTIVE
2. Lesson Goals : UNDERSTANDING OUR METHODOLOGY
Interact with primary texts — Torah, Talmud, Responsa, letters, plays, even coins — in order to find out how people reacted to and experienced the events of their day.
3. TEXTS:
ZACHOR- זכור- REMEMBER!
1. Deut. 5: 12-15:
THE FOUNDATION OF REMEMBERING
"Remember ("zachor") that you were a slave in the Land of Egypt and the Lord, your G-d freed you from there...."
2. Hagadah
NATIONAL AND PERSONAL MEMORY
"In each and every generation a person is obligated to see himself as if he had come out from Egypt...."
3. Oliver Sacks- The Man who Mistook his wife for a hat
MEMORY AND PERSONAL IDENTITY
"Each of us is a biography, a story....Biologically, physiologically,
we are not so different from each other; historically as
narratives- we are each of us unique.
4. Katznelson, Revolution and Tradition
FINDING THE BALANCE BETWEEN MEMORY AND FORGETTING
We have two faculties: Memory and Forgetfulness. We cannot live
without both.
5. Soloveitchik- The Community:
THE PURPOSE OF JEWISH EDUCATION: TRANSMISSION OF MEMORY
i. Understand difference between history and memory.
ii. Understand how memory affects our identity
iii. Focus is not on facts and dates as much as recurring themes
evident throughout Jewish history, and on specific crossroads.
HISTORY MEMORY
ACADEMIC PERSONAL
NO WORD IN HEBREW ZACHOR- A MITZVAH- SACRED
TRANSMITTED THROUGH CHRONICLE TRANSMITTED THROUGH
RITUAL, MYTH, STORIES
STRIVES FOR OBJECTIVITY SUBJECTIVE
COMPREHENSIVE SELECTIVE
2. Lesson Goals : UNDERSTANDING OUR METHODOLOGY
Interact with primary texts — Torah, Talmud, Responsa, letters, plays, even coins — in order to find out how people reacted to and experienced the events of their day.
3. TEXTS:
ZACHOR- זכור- REMEMBER!
1. Deut. 5: 12-15:
THE FOUNDATION OF REMEMBERING
"Remember ("zachor") that you were a slave in the Land of Egypt and the Lord, your G-d freed you from there...."
2. Hagadah
NATIONAL AND PERSONAL MEMORY
"In each and every generation a person is obligated to see himself as if he had come out from Egypt...."
3. Oliver Sacks- The Man who Mistook his wife for a hat
MEMORY AND PERSONAL IDENTITY
"Each of us is a biography, a story....Biologically, physiologically,
we are not so different from each other; historically as
narratives- we are each of us unique.
4. Katznelson, Revolution and Tradition
FINDING THE BALANCE BETWEEN MEMORY AND FORGETTING
We have two faculties: Memory and Forgetfulness. We cannot live
without both.
5. Soloveitchik- The Community:
THE PURPOSE OF JEWISH EDUCATION: TRANSMISSION OF MEMORY
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