The Death of G-d (and other absolutes)
Saturday 25 June
11:00
to 14:00
Study Sessions led by Rabbi Judith Rosen-Berry
The Death of G-d (and other absolutes):
Jewish mourning and acute melancholia in (post)-modern times.“Somewhere at the centre of myself, I’ve neither changed nor ‘grown up’. I don’t want to do either really. I cherish the simplicity of [childhood], the sharp, clear perception of injustice … Time has passed. Half a century has passed, and more than half a peculiar, unsettled, difficult lifetime, a lot of it lived on various margins … glancing uneasily between the demands of that simple child’s heart and a necessarily complicated consciousness”.
Rabbi Sheila Shulman, ‘A Beloved Unique in the World’ in Watching For the Morning, 1999.
In these sessions we will be asking whether: we have (or have not) come to terms with the death/loss of G-d, (and other Absolutes)? Whether in this… our era of accelerating technology, urban growth, commodification, demographic, cultural/religious, economic, and political commotion – there is (or is not) a growing sense of mostly unarticulated but profound (personal/political) loss/grief? Of a nostalgia for all that has gone – un-remarked and unnoticed?
Jewish mourning and acute melancholia in (post)-modern times.“Somewhere at the centre of myself, I’ve neither changed nor ‘grown up’. I don’t want to do either really. I cherish the simplicity of [childhood], the sharp, clear perception of injustice … Time has passed. Half a century has passed, and more than half a peculiar, unsettled, difficult lifetime, a lot of it lived on various margins … glancing uneasily between the demands of that simple child’s heart and a necessarily complicated consciousness”.
Rabbi Sheila Shulman, ‘A Beloved Unique in the World’ in Watching For the Morning, 1999.
In these sessions we will be asking whether: we have (or have not) come to terms with the death/loss of G-d, (and other Absolutes)? Whether in this… our era of accelerating technology, urban growth, commodification, demographic, cultural/religious, economic, and political commotion – there is (or is not) a growing sense of mostly unarticulated but profound (personal/political) loss/grief? Of a nostalgia for all that has gone – un-remarked and unnoticed?
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Please bring something to eat and drink for a light vegetarian or (labelled) kosher fish shared lunch.