Biti Roi
Dr. Biti Roi is a Senior Fellow of the Kogod Research Center Contemporary Jewish Thought and the academic coordinator and adviser for North American seminars at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Israel. Dr. Roi holds a Ph.D fron Bar Ilan University and is a lecturer in the Department of Jewish Thought at the Ben Gurion University, where she teaches kabbalah and Hasidut. She was a leader and participant in the first cohort of the Beit
Justice or Love? Reading Jonah: Reflections from the Bible to the Kabbalah and Hassidut
Biti Roi explores the tradition of reading the Book of Jonah on Yom Kippur, probing the themes of universal repentance from the original biblical story through the writings of the Zohar to Hasidic sources.
NOTE: This program was part of our Summer 2021 Virtual Rabbinic Torah Seminar, Torah of Possibility for an Uncertain Future
