What’s Love Got to Do With It?

Sarah Wolf explores biblical and rabbinic sources that mandate love and other emotions to understand what might be at stake in our contemporary discourse.

Sarah Wolf

July 14, 2021

July 14, 2021

Sarah Wolf

Dr. Sarah Wolf is Assistant Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at the Jewish Theological Seminary and a Fellow of the Kogod Research Center at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. She is also a member of the inaugural cohort of North American David Hartman Center Fellows. Sarah received her Ph.D from Northwestern University in 2018 and her B.A. in Literature from Yale University. Sarah’s current research explores the use of emotions as legal categories

Judaism and Modernity, Video, Torah, Talmud, Virtual Rabbinic Torah Seminar

What’s Love Got to Do With It? Love and Emotions in Classical Jewish Sources

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Many Jewish communities are having conversations about the importance of ahavat Yisrael, a love of Israel or love of the Jews. But what do we really mean when we ask if someone has that love, or when we require it in our community members and leaders?

The idea that one must love has a precedent in some of the central texts of Judaism. Sarah Wolf explores biblical and rabbinic sources that mandate love, as well as other emotions such as “joy,” in order to understand what might be at stake in our contemporary discourse.

NOTE: This program was part of our Summer 2021 Virtual Rabbinic Torah Seminar, Torah of Possibility for an Uncertain Future

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What’s Love Got to Do With It?

What’s Love Got to Do With It? Love and Emotions in Classical Jewish Sources

Session 1

Session 2

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/ Rabbinic Torah Seminar (RTS)

What’s Love Got to Do With It?

What’s Love Got to Do With It? Love and Emotions in Classical Jewish Sources

Session 1

Session 2

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