Dr. Dvora E. Weisberg

  

Jews are the “People of the Book”---but which book?

Where is heaven or hell mentioned in the Bible?

Did Moses study in a Yeshiva?

Did any of our forefathers have a bar mitzvah?

While the saying “People of the Book” refers to the Bible, the Judaism we practice today is largely based on rabbinic texts compiled hundreds of years later.  Many of our beliefs and practices, such as Moses’ days in a Yeshiva, the bar mitzvah, or heaven and hell are not even mentioned in the Bible, but are described in detail in the Talmud. 

 Devora Weisberg is Associate Professor of Rabbinics and Director of the Beit Midash at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles.

 She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Talmud and Rabbinic Literature from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Before coming to HUC-JLR, Dr. Weisberg taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary, the College of William and Mary and the University of Pittsburgh.

 Her publications include “Levirate Marriage and Halitzah in the Mishnah” and “Men Imagining Women Imagining God:  Gender Issues in Classical Midrash.”  She is currently working on a book about the evolution of levirate marriage in ancient Judaism.

 Dr. Weisberg is married to Rabbi Neal Scheindlin and is the mother of Micah and Noah Scheindlin.

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