December 9, 2011
Reading Levinas/Reading Talmud
Judaismadminby Rabbi Ira F. Stone Rabbi Ira F. Stone of Temple Beth Zion-Beth Israel in Philadelphia, has been leading Talmud discussions for many years, basing his interpretive style on that of the great French philosopher, Emmanuel Levinas. Levinas, long known in Europe, has recently become the subject of intense American scholarly interest. And while many of Levinas’s works have been available in translations for years, Stone’s Reading Levinas/Reading Talmud is the first major effort to explain him to the general public. Rabbi Stone begins with a “Levinasian Dictionary,” intended to […]