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Papers by Miriam Feldmann-Kaye
Illuminated Fragments: The New Jewish Philosophy of Rav Shagar, 2024
Modern Theology, 2024
The primary objective of this study is to offer an original interpretation in two fields of resea... more The primary objective of this study is to offer an original interpretation in two fields of research: the first, of contemporary Jewish philosophy, and the second, to the continental and specifically deconstructionist method. I wish to achieve this by analysing a new deconstructionist text of the French, Jewish, post-structuralist, feminist contemporary thinker-Hélène Cixous, which has thus far received little scholarly attention at all, and even less in its contributions to deconstructionism and Jewish philosophical thought. Focusing on this text, I concentrate on its Jewish and philosophical aspects-Gare d'Osnabrück à Jérusalem-The Osnabrück Station in/to Jerusalem. This study will centre on Cixous' treatment of theodicy-the theological problem of evil and sufferingcontextualising her position in the thought of the postwar French cultural milieu of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida. I will examine the position Cixous develops on theodicy-which is to resist it, and move towards a position of anti-theodicy. I show how she develops this position, which is through a deconstructionist and hermeneutical reading of the biblical figure of Job. I then trace further theological issues arising from her anti-theodicy, of the roles of exile and return in this text-especially in Cixous' positioning of Osnabrück as 'Jerusalem'. The study is set alongside the 'Hauntology' theory of Jacques Derrida. I claim that Cixous' work can be enhanced through a hauntological reading, but that she ultimately redefines this position to advance her own thinking. This study offers questions beyond this particular text: first, relating to the role of deconstructionism in portraying theological issues, especially theodicy, and second, of the contributions, complex as they may be, to contemporary Jewish philosophical discourse.
Journal of Scriptural Reasoning, 2023
As an approach and as a practice, SR generates original interpretations of sacred texts whilst h... more As an approach and as a practice, SR generates original interpretations of sacred texts
whilst highlighting diverse religious communities with their many distinctions. While the
nature of SR sessions requires people to meet in person and read the sacred texts together,
we thought that the use of digital platforms could host such a practice. In fact, this
experiment was initially borne out of communal support for one another, and it also
functions as a pedagogic tool to encourage learning within communities, wherein
participants are guided toward posing new questions and making suggestions about their
own reading of the scriptures through textual dialogue with others.
In the Jewish tradition, the story of Jonah has a canonical signicance which makes the
text available to those who might not be familiar with other texts of the minor prophets. It is
bequeathed with religious and spiritual signicance through its status as a communal
reading in the High Holy days; it is part of the public synagogue reading from the Hebrew
Bible on Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement).
![Research paper thumbnail of Scriptural Reasoning [Hebrew ]שיח כתבי הקודש: פרקטיקה של קריאה משותפת בכתבי קודש](https://attachments.academia-assets.com/115198410/thumbnails/1.jpg)
](Journal of Kaye Academic College of Education Lexi-Kaye, 2024
שיח כתבי הקודש מוכר בביטויו באנגלית Scriptural Reasoning (קיצורו SR). זהו כינוי לאופן קריאה ולימו... more שיח כתבי הקודש מוכר בביטויו באנגלית Scriptural Reasoning (קיצורו SR). זהו כינוי לאופן קריאה ולימוד של כתבי הקודש המשלב תיאולוגיה ופרקטיקה בין־דתית. שיח כתבי הקודש הוא סוג של דיאלוג בין־דתי, המבסס למידה על דתות ותרבויות אחרות, על קריאה קבוצתית של טקסטים נבחרים בכתבי הקודש (שהיא צורה של למידת עמיתים). הוא התפתח בצורתו הנפוצה ביותר בפקולטה לתאולוגיה באוניברסיטת קיימברידג'. למידת טקסטים דתיים מספקת הזדמנויות לדיון בנושאים של אתיקה והתנהגות אנושית ומדגימה את הרבדים המרובים של הפרשנות במשך מאות שנים. הפרקטיקה של שיח כתבי הקודש משלבת בין שלושה רבדים: הרובד של מפגש ושיח בין־דתי, הרובד המעשי של למידה סובלנית הרלוונטית לעת הזאת והרובד התאולוגי של שיח משותף.
אופן הקריאה של כתבי הקודש מתואר לעיתים כ'תאו־פרקסיס' של היחסים הבין־דתיים. קריאת כתבי הקודש מאפשרת למאמינים בני דתות הספר: נוצרים, יהודים ומוסלמים להפנות את המוקד התיאולוגי שלהם לדיאלוג הבין־דתי – באופן תאורטי ומעשי כאחד. חלק מן המשתתפים במפגשי שיח כתבי הקודש עשויים לבחור להגדיר שיח זה רק כפרקטיקה, ואילו המכוננים והמובילים של שיח זה מעדיפים להציגו כתאולוגיה של יחסים 'בין־סובייקטים' עם בני דתות אחרות תוך הקפדה שלא לנקוט ביַחְסוּתָנוּת (רלטיביזם)…
Voices of Hope, Izzun Books, London, 2024
Contributors include: Art Green, Paul Mendes-Flohr, Menachem Kellner, Sam Lebens, Rachel Adelman,... more Contributors include: Art Green, Paul Mendes-Flohr, Menachem Kellner, Sam Lebens, Rachel Adelman, Reuven Firestone, Dalia Marx etc. eds Simon Eder and Adam Zagoria-Moffet
Universities of Turku and Helsinki, Finland - Donner Institute, 2023
The Routledge Handbook for 21st Century Judaism, 2023
Journal of Scriptural Reasoning, 2023
Scriptural Reasoning in a Time of Social Distancing
Religions 13(5), 438, 2022
Abstract: I propose a new reading of a selection of continental philosophical interpretations of ... more Abstract: I propose a new reading of a selection of continental philosophical interpretations of the
nature of existentialism after the dialogical turn. This analysis will focus on the particular case study
of the biblical character of Abraham as a case in point. Philosophical treatments thereof allow for
a consideration of different but connected approaches through the study and re-readings of the
character of Abraham, which begin with Kierkegaard’s well-known rendition of the sacrifice of
Isaac. This study will focus on interpretations since Kierkegaard, with attention to the continental
philosophical trend. The four thinkers I bring, all offered critiques, and even rejections of, a purely
existential position. These positions are well-known in the field. However, Existentialism is never
actually overcome despite these four critiques of Kierkegaard’s model of Abraham. I will demonstrate
this through an analysis of the case of interpretations of the biblical figure of Abraham, showing the
ways in which Kierkegaard remains present in dialogical philosophy and even deconstructionism.
For Franz Rosenzweig, his stance is relational and thus is fascinated yet ambivalent towards the
readiness of Abraham to sacrifice; Emmanuel Levinas admires Kierkegaard’s emphasis on the
subject/ivity (Proper Names and Difficult Freedom); Jacques Derrida admires Abraham’s passion
(Gift of Death and Abraham as Other); and for Jean-Luc Marion, Abraham’s sacrifice does not present
a relinquishing of self, but rather, the phenomenological act symbolises returning a Gift.
Keywords: modern philosophy; religious existentialism; continental philosophical theology; Franz
Rosenzweig; Emmanuel Levinas; Jacques Derrida; Jean-Luc Marion
Freie Universitat Berlin, 2022
The Potential for a Deconstructivist Approach to Liturgy in Modern Jewish Philosophy Miriam Fel... more The Potential for a Deconstructivist Approach to Liturgy in Modern Jewish Philosophy
Miriam Feldmann Kaye
This paper will set forth the principles of postmodern philosophy and the ways in which they both stimulate and problematise new philosophical discourse in Jewish thought today. The paper will examine one particular case in point – that of philosophical understandings of sacred texts. Hermeneutical responses to phenomenology of the early twentieth century – according to Emmanuel Lévinas – will be employed to analyse the role of sacred texts. Postmodern theory, in particular the deconstructionist approach of Jacques Derrida, was accompanied by his proposal of dissemination. Dissemination, will be viewed as a tool by which the approaches of Lévinas might be conceived of as offering new approaches to revelation according to Jewish tradition. This is manifested in original interpretations of the role of liturgy, and prayer, as fulfilling the notion of the “life of the text”. Ultimately, entertaining the Derridean shift from mimesis to poesis, makes new demands on the Jewish idea of revelation to define itself anew. Questions will be posed as to, how far the Derridean theory of dissemination should or can be entertained in Jewish theology. And if this approach is amalgamated in certain ways, then what does this new approach to revelation mean for Jewish consciousness and thinking today
National Library of Israel, 2022
Panel: Prof Susanna Heschel Prof Moshe Halbertal Prof Hanoch ben Pazi Prof Haviva Pedaya Dr Shai ... more Panel:
Prof Susanna Heschel
Prof Moshe Halbertal
Prof Hanoch ben Pazi
Prof Haviva Pedaya
Dr Shai Held
Dr Miriam Feldmann Kaye
Dr Dror Bondi
Journal of Development Studies, 2022
Yeshiva University Press, Ktav Publishing, Urim Publications, New York City, NY., 2022
Journal of Religion and Theology, 2021
This paper explores the post-metaphysical theology of Richard Kearney (1954–) from a Jewish theo... more This paper explores the post-metaphysical theology of Richard Kearney (1954–) from
a Jewish theological perspective. It seeks to provide an original analysis of his project
“anatheism,” considering the prominence of Jewish texts in the development of the
concept of anatheism. Rooted in deconstructionist and Continental philosophical discourses, Jewish hermeneutics also plays a central role in anatheism. This discursive
intersection has received scarce scholarly attention to date. Biblical and other texts
which he interprets, include the rabbinic exegesis of Rashi and of modern Jewish
hermeneutical philosophy notably of Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, and Emmanuel
Levinas. I analyse elements of Kearney’s interpretation primarily of the “Burning Bush”
biblical narrative as a test case for anatheistic reading of Jewish texts as they appear in
one particular text “I Am Who May Be” in The God Who May Be: A Hermeneutics of Religion (2001). Kearney’s textual reading of the Burning Bush offers an unusual example
of a Christian engagement with Jewish interpretations of the biblical parable as well
as of Levinas, Derrida, and others. Kearney’s effort highlights an approach of a mutual
search for ways of interpreting texts not “of” the other, but “with” the other, in a mutual
engagement of post-metaphysical theology. More broadly, this examination offers an
important contribution to the developing field of post-metaphysical theology in the
Jewish and Christian traditions, ultimately posing questions as to how and whether
elements of Jewish scriptural interpretative techniques might or can imbue contemporary Christian post-metaphysical theologies. Conversely, the question can be asked as
to what a Jewish version of anatheism might look like. This examination presents a test
case for possibilities of reading and learning from discourses across different religions.
DAAT: A Journal of Jewish Philosophy & Kabbalah 90 pp. XXXI-XXXV, 2022
The book under review offers a compelling comparison between the early modern philosopher Friedr... more The book under review offers a compelling comparison between the early
modern philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, and the late modern Jewish
philosopher Joseph D. Soloveitchik. The conceptual backdrop is broader
than this specific comparison through its enriching contextualisation of
Jewish written or imagined responses to contemporaneous philosophical
movements. In particular, the book offers insights into conceptual trends
of post-Enlightenment Western philosophical theology, notably between
individualism and the collective; theism and atheism; iconoclasm and
obedience.
Research Seminar, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, 2021
"The Idea of Revelation in Contemporary Jewish Philosophy: a Deconstructive Study" Phenomenologi... more "The Idea of Revelation in Contemporary Jewish Philosophy: a Deconstructive Study"
Phenomenological, Hermeneutical and Existentialist Approaches to the idea of Revelation in Sacred texts
אוניברסיטת בן גוריון סמינר מחלקתי
Research Seminary, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
American Academy of Religion 2021 San Antonio, Texas
ערב השקה, 2021
invitation to a book inauguration - Between Religion and Reason part II
Illuminated Fragments: The New Jewish Philosophy of Rav Shagar, 2024
Modern Theology, 2024
The primary objective of this study is to offer an original interpretation in two fields of resea... more The primary objective of this study is to offer an original interpretation in two fields of research: the first, of contemporary Jewish philosophy, and the second, to the continental and specifically deconstructionist method. I wish to achieve this by analysing a new deconstructionist text of the French, Jewish, post-structuralist, feminist contemporary thinker-Hélène Cixous, which has thus far received little scholarly attention at all, and even less in its contributions to deconstructionism and Jewish philosophical thought. Focusing on this text, I concentrate on its Jewish and philosophical aspects-Gare d'Osnabrück à Jérusalem-The Osnabrück Station in/to Jerusalem. This study will centre on Cixous' treatment of theodicy-the theological problem of evil and sufferingcontextualising her position in the thought of the postwar French cultural milieu of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida. I will examine the position Cixous develops on theodicy-which is to resist it, and move towards a position of anti-theodicy. I show how she develops this position, which is through a deconstructionist and hermeneutical reading of the biblical figure of Job. I then trace further theological issues arising from her anti-theodicy, of the roles of exile and return in this text-especially in Cixous' positioning of Osnabrück as 'Jerusalem'. The study is set alongside the 'Hauntology' theory of Jacques Derrida. I claim that Cixous' work can be enhanced through a hauntological reading, but that she ultimately redefines this position to advance her own thinking. This study offers questions beyond this particular text: first, relating to the role of deconstructionism in portraying theological issues, especially theodicy, and second, of the contributions, complex as they may be, to contemporary Jewish philosophical discourse.
Journal of Scriptural Reasoning, 2023
As an approach and as a practice, SR generates original interpretations of sacred texts whilst h... more As an approach and as a practice, SR generates original interpretations of sacred texts
whilst highlighting diverse religious communities with their many distinctions. While the
nature of SR sessions requires people to meet in person and read the sacred texts together,
we thought that the use of digital platforms could host such a practice. In fact, this
experiment was initially borne out of communal support for one another, and it also
functions as a pedagogic tool to encourage learning within communities, wherein
participants are guided toward posing new questions and making suggestions about their
own reading of the scriptures through textual dialogue with others.
In the Jewish tradition, the story of Jonah has a canonical signicance which makes the
text available to those who might not be familiar with other texts of the minor prophets. It is
bequeathed with religious and spiritual signicance through its status as a communal
reading in the High Holy days; it is part of the public synagogue reading from the Hebrew
Bible on Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement).
Journal of Kaye Academic College of Education Lexi-Kaye, 2024
שיח כתבי הקודש מוכר בביטויו באנגלית Scriptural Reasoning (קיצורו SR). זהו כינוי לאופן קריאה ולימו... more שיח כתבי הקודש מוכר בביטויו באנגלית Scriptural Reasoning (קיצורו SR). זהו כינוי לאופן קריאה ולימוד של כתבי הקודש המשלב תיאולוגיה ופרקטיקה בין־דתית. שיח כתבי הקודש הוא סוג של דיאלוג בין־דתי, המבסס למידה על דתות ותרבויות אחרות, על קריאה קבוצתית של טקסטים נבחרים בכתבי הקודש (שהיא צורה של למידת עמיתים). הוא התפתח בצורתו הנפוצה ביותר בפקולטה לתאולוגיה באוניברסיטת קיימברידג'. למידת טקסטים דתיים מספקת הזדמנויות לדיון בנושאים של אתיקה והתנהגות אנושית ומדגימה את הרבדים המרובים של הפרשנות במשך מאות שנים. הפרקטיקה של שיח כתבי הקודש משלבת בין שלושה רבדים: הרובד של מפגש ושיח בין־דתי, הרובד המעשי של למידה סובלנית הרלוונטית לעת הזאת והרובד התאולוגי של שיח משותף.
אופן הקריאה של כתבי הקודש מתואר לעיתים כ'תאו־פרקסיס' של היחסים הבין־דתיים. קריאת כתבי הקודש מאפשרת למאמינים בני דתות הספר: נוצרים, יהודים ומוסלמים להפנות את המוקד התיאולוגי שלהם לדיאלוג הבין־דתי – באופן תאורטי ומעשי כאחד. חלק מן המשתתפים במפגשי שיח כתבי הקודש עשויים לבחור להגדיר שיח זה רק כפרקטיקה, ואילו המכוננים והמובילים של שיח זה מעדיפים להציגו כתאולוגיה של יחסים 'בין־סובייקטים' עם בני דתות אחרות תוך הקפדה שלא לנקוט ביַחְסוּתָנוּת (רלטיביזם)…
Voices of Hope, Izzun Books, London, 2024
Contributors include: Art Green, Paul Mendes-Flohr, Menachem Kellner, Sam Lebens, Rachel Adelman,... more Contributors include: Art Green, Paul Mendes-Flohr, Menachem Kellner, Sam Lebens, Rachel Adelman, Reuven Firestone, Dalia Marx etc. eds Simon Eder and Adam Zagoria-Moffet
Universities of Turku and Helsinki, Finland - Donner Institute, 2023
The Routledge Handbook for 21st Century Judaism, 2023
Journal of Scriptural Reasoning, 2023
Scriptural Reasoning in a Time of Social Distancing
Religions 13(5), 438, 2022
Abstract: I propose a new reading of a selection of continental philosophical interpretations of ... more Abstract: I propose a new reading of a selection of continental philosophical interpretations of the
nature of existentialism after the dialogical turn. This analysis will focus on the particular case study
of the biblical character of Abraham as a case in point. Philosophical treatments thereof allow for
a consideration of different but connected approaches through the study and re-readings of the
character of Abraham, which begin with Kierkegaard’s well-known rendition of the sacrifice of
Isaac. This study will focus on interpretations since Kierkegaard, with attention to the continental
philosophical trend. The four thinkers I bring, all offered critiques, and even rejections of, a purely
existential position. These positions are well-known in the field. However, Existentialism is never
actually overcome despite these four critiques of Kierkegaard’s model of Abraham. I will demonstrate
this through an analysis of the case of interpretations of the biblical figure of Abraham, showing the
ways in which Kierkegaard remains present in dialogical philosophy and even deconstructionism.
For Franz Rosenzweig, his stance is relational and thus is fascinated yet ambivalent towards the
readiness of Abraham to sacrifice; Emmanuel Levinas admires Kierkegaard’s emphasis on the
subject/ivity (Proper Names and Difficult Freedom); Jacques Derrida admires Abraham’s passion
(Gift of Death and Abraham as Other); and for Jean-Luc Marion, Abraham’s sacrifice does not present
a relinquishing of self, but rather, the phenomenological act symbolises returning a Gift.
Keywords: modern philosophy; religious existentialism; continental philosophical theology; Franz
Rosenzweig; Emmanuel Levinas; Jacques Derrida; Jean-Luc Marion
Freie Universitat Berlin, 2022
The Potential for a Deconstructivist Approach to Liturgy in Modern Jewish Philosophy Miriam Fel... more The Potential for a Deconstructivist Approach to Liturgy in Modern Jewish Philosophy
Miriam Feldmann Kaye
This paper will set forth the principles of postmodern philosophy and the ways in which they both stimulate and problematise new philosophical discourse in Jewish thought today. The paper will examine one particular case in point – that of philosophical understandings of sacred texts. Hermeneutical responses to phenomenology of the early twentieth century – according to Emmanuel Lévinas – will be employed to analyse the role of sacred texts. Postmodern theory, in particular the deconstructionist approach of Jacques Derrida, was accompanied by his proposal of dissemination. Dissemination, will be viewed as a tool by which the approaches of Lévinas might be conceived of as offering new approaches to revelation according to Jewish tradition. This is manifested in original interpretations of the role of liturgy, and prayer, as fulfilling the notion of the “life of the text”. Ultimately, entertaining the Derridean shift from mimesis to poesis, makes new demands on the Jewish idea of revelation to define itself anew. Questions will be posed as to, how far the Derridean theory of dissemination should or can be entertained in Jewish theology. And if this approach is amalgamated in certain ways, then what does this new approach to revelation mean for Jewish consciousness and thinking today
National Library of Israel, 2022
Panel: Prof Susanna Heschel Prof Moshe Halbertal Prof Hanoch ben Pazi Prof Haviva Pedaya Dr Shai ... more Panel:
Prof Susanna Heschel
Prof Moshe Halbertal
Prof Hanoch ben Pazi
Prof Haviva Pedaya
Dr Shai Held
Dr Miriam Feldmann Kaye
Dr Dror Bondi
Journal of Development Studies, 2022
Yeshiva University Press, Ktav Publishing, Urim Publications, New York City, NY., 2022
Journal of Religion and Theology, 2021
This paper explores the post-metaphysical theology of Richard Kearney (1954–) from a Jewish theo... more This paper explores the post-metaphysical theology of Richard Kearney (1954–) from
a Jewish theological perspective. It seeks to provide an original analysis of his project
“anatheism,” considering the prominence of Jewish texts in the development of the
concept of anatheism. Rooted in deconstructionist and Continental philosophical discourses, Jewish hermeneutics also plays a central role in anatheism. This discursive
intersection has received scarce scholarly attention to date. Biblical and other texts
which he interprets, include the rabbinic exegesis of Rashi and of modern Jewish
hermeneutical philosophy notably of Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, and Emmanuel
Levinas. I analyse elements of Kearney’s interpretation primarily of the “Burning Bush”
biblical narrative as a test case for anatheistic reading of Jewish texts as they appear in
one particular text “I Am Who May Be” in The God Who May Be: A Hermeneutics of Religion (2001). Kearney’s textual reading of the Burning Bush offers an unusual example
of a Christian engagement with Jewish interpretations of the biblical parable as well
as of Levinas, Derrida, and others. Kearney’s effort highlights an approach of a mutual
search for ways of interpreting texts not “of” the other, but “with” the other, in a mutual
engagement of post-metaphysical theology. More broadly, this examination offers an
important contribution to the developing field of post-metaphysical theology in the
Jewish and Christian traditions, ultimately posing questions as to how and whether
elements of Jewish scriptural interpretative techniques might or can imbue contemporary Christian post-metaphysical theologies. Conversely, the question can be asked as
to what a Jewish version of anatheism might look like. This examination presents a test
case for possibilities of reading and learning from discourses across different religions.
DAAT: A Journal of Jewish Philosophy & Kabbalah 90 pp. XXXI-XXXV, 2022
The book under review offers a compelling comparison between the early modern philosopher Friedr... more The book under review offers a compelling comparison between the early
modern philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, and the late modern Jewish
philosopher Joseph D. Soloveitchik. The conceptual backdrop is broader
than this specific comparison through its enriching contextualisation of
Jewish written or imagined responses to contemporaneous philosophical
movements. In particular, the book offers insights into conceptual trends
of post-Enlightenment Western philosophical theology, notably between
individualism and the collective; theism and atheism; iconoclasm and
obedience.
Research Seminar, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, 2021
"The Idea of Revelation in Contemporary Jewish Philosophy: a Deconstructive Study" Phenomenologi... more "The Idea of Revelation in Contemporary Jewish Philosophy: a Deconstructive Study"
Phenomenological, Hermeneutical and Existentialist Approaches to the idea of Revelation in Sacred texts
אוניברסיטת בן גוריון סמינר מחלקתי
Research Seminary, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
American Academy of Religion 2021 San Antonio, Texas
ערב השקה, 2021
invitation to a book inauguration - Between Religion and Reason part II
![Research paper thumbnail of "As a Deer Yearns for Flowing Streams...": Interlacing Opposites and the Developing Horizons of Jewish Philosophy" [Heb] ''כאיל תערג על אפיקי מים – אריגת ההפכים ואפיקי ההתפתחות של הפילוסופיה היהודית''](https://attachments.academia-assets.com/66676800/thumbnails/1.jpg)
](Book Launch "Between Knowledge and Religion" Volume 2 Ephraim Chamiel, 2021
''כאיל תערג על אפיקי מים – אריגת ההפכים ואפיקי ההתפתחות של הפילוסופיה היהודית'' ערב השקה - ספרו ... more ''כאיל תערג על אפיקי מים – אריגת ההפכים ואפיקי ההתפתחות של הפילוסופיה היהודית''
ערב השקה - ספרו של ד''ר אפרים חמיאל:
"בין דת לדעת''
חלק ב'
עמדת ההתנגדות לסתירה בין התבונה להתגלות
בהגות היהודית בת זמננו מאליעזר גולדמן עד יונתן זקס'
30.5.2021
British Association of Jewish Studies 2021
Reflections from the Academic Editor, Dr Miriam Feldmann-Kaye
Association of the Continental Philosophy of Religion, 2024
'לימוד, היזכרות וחלום'' 'Sources: How to Avoid Speaking: Denials, (based on a lecture first del... more 'לימוד, היזכרות וחלום''
'Sources:
How to Avoid Speaking: Denials, (based on a lecture first delivered in Jerusalem, 1986) published in Psyche: Inventions of the Other, Volume II, Eds Kamuf, P. & Rottenberg, E., Stanford [Stanford University Press] 2008;
Derrida, J., Guvrin, M. & Shapiro, D, Guf Tefila (Heb), Tel Aviv [Mofet/Kav Adom Kaheh/Kibbutz HaMeuhad] 2013.
She’erit HaEmunah: Derashot Postmoderniot LeMoadei Yisrael, eds Y Mevorach & E Abramovitz, Resling 2014.
'לתת בים דרך''
2017
אירוע לכבוד עשר שנים מפטירתו של הרב שג''ר
ישיבת שיח יצחק
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](Facilitation: Dr. Miriam Feldmann Kaye Prof Menachem Lorberbaum ''Theology after Realism'' Prof... more Facilitation: Dr. Miriam Feldmann Kaye
Prof Menachem Lorberbaum ''Theology after Realism''
Prof Sylvia Barack Fishman ''Asking the Right Questions“
Panel:
Prof. Hanoch ben Pazi
Dr Ronit Irshai
Dr Tova Ganzel
Prof Tamar Elor
Dr Chana Friedman
Closing remarks: Prof Tamar Ross
הנחייה: ד“ר מרים פלדמן-קיי
◆ פרופ‘ מנחם לורברבוים: ”תיאולוגיה מעבר לריאליזם“
◆ פרופ‘ סילביה ברק פישמן:
◆ אתנחתא מוזיקלית
◆ ”הפמיניזם הדתי – כיוונים ומחשבות לעתיד“
פאנל בהנחיית: פרופ‘ חנוך בן-פזי
בהשתתפות: פרופ‘ תמר אלאור · ד“ר חנה פרידמן
ד“ר טובה גנזל · ד“ר רונית עיר-שי
◆ אתנחתא מוזיקלית
◆ דברי סיכום: פרופ‘ תמר רוס
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]("A Philosophy of Difference and of Dignity: The Thought of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks" [Hebrew]
London School of Jewish Studies, 2019
NEW THINKING: JEWISH PHILOSOPHY IN THE 21ST CENTURY Wednesday 26th June 2019 Dr Miriam Feldman ... more NEW THINKING: JEWISH PHILOSOPHY IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Wednesday 26th June 2019
Dr Miriam Feldman Kaye, R. Dr Michael Harris, Dr Tamra Wright
Chair: Dr Harris Bor
Jewish philosophy and theology have always developed in dialogue with western philosophy. Join us for a lively discussion with three scholars about their recent books and their different perspectives on the evolving relationship between Jewish thought and the western philosophical tradition(s). The conversation will cover modernity, postmodernism, ethics, the existentialist quest for meaning, and much, much more.
Tel Aviv University, 2012
Lecture at Book Launch for Dr Ori Goldberg
Idra Press, 2024
Co-editors: Miriam Feldmann-Kaye and Hanoch Ben Pazi
World Congress of Philosophy, 2024
The Association of the Continental Philosophy of Religion, 2024
European Association of Philosophy, 2024
St Andrews University, Scotland, 2023
Tamar Ross Navigating Between Insider and Outsider Approaches to Religious Truth Claims Han... more Tamar Ross
Navigating Between Insider and Outsider Approaches to Religious Truth Claims
Hanoch Ben Pazi
The Influence of Jewish - Christian Dialogue on Jewish Thought of Theodicy
Cass Fisher
Remembering the Future of Jewish Theology
Conference "Constructive Jewish Theology" Colgate University, New York, 10-11 October, 2021.
Gottinghen University with Faculty of Humanities – Faculty of Jewish Studies "Bar-Ilan Forum fo... more Gottinghen University with Faculty of Humanities – Faculty of Jewish Studies
"Bar-Ilan Forum for Study of Religions"
Prof. Shlomy Mualem – Prof. Hanoch Ben Pazi
Bar-Ilan University – University of Göttingen
Israeli-German Workshop on
“Religions and Healing” in the face of Corona (COVID-19)
Bar Ilan Campus
Nov. 21 - 23, 2022
“Religions and Healing” in the face of Corona (COVID-19)
Hermeneutical challenges to religious perspectives on illness and human well-being
The Global Corona-Context
The Corona plague has confronted all of humanity with common challenges with natural
disaster, anxiety, social isolation, as well as imminent religious and spiritual questions. During
the past two years one could already decipher how religious individuals, groups, thinkers and
leaders started to react to these communal and spiritual challenges. At the same time, one
can already begin to identify several theological, spiritual, psychological and social
implications of these confrontations of our times.
Hermeneutical Challenge to the ’Religious Field’
Religious traditions often embody specific ideas – and ideals – about the interpretation of
illnesses and pandemics (karmic effects, negative rewards for human misbehavior and sinful
action, God’s wrath etc.) and the preservation of well-being and healing (e.g. spiritual
strengthening of resilience; practices of ‘natural’, medical and/or ‘spiritual’ healing; as well as
prayer, ritual and ‘magic’ activities). – The current global pandemic has led all spiritual
traditions to re-evaluate their traditional stock of narratives and practices around illness and
healing and to confront them with the new pandemic situation, which in itself poses a radical
hermeneutical imperative – a quest to be interpreted, to be attributed with meaning: ➔ Why
is it there, and how can it be interpreted and understood (religiously) and how is it to be
confronted – spiritually, as well as in action (Theodicy, Ethics)? – Will it suffice to re-enact
traditional paths of interpretation or does the current pandemic situation demand a new reevaluation?
British and Irish Association of Jewish Studies, 2022
This paper will probe the philosophical origins and influences of the concept of Sabbath [Shabba... more This paper will probe the philosophical origins and influences of the concept of Sabbath [Shabbat] as Eternal Time – as presented by the twentieth century Jewish thinker Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972). Shabbat is illustrated by Heschel as a time-phenomenon which “transforms the human sphere” through “transcending the soul” through religious acts and prayer. The pre-eminence of the idea of space, even of holy space - was largely rejected by Heschel in
favour of the notion of Time – which he termed the “cathedral of time”.
This paper will focus on the central philosophical influence on Heschel’s notion of eternity. Indeed, Heschel’s philosophy of Shabbat could be aligned with one of the central ideas of the ‘phenomenological’ school of philosophy of modern times: “Time consciousness”. Such a discussion can enrich our understanding of Heschel’s portrayal of ‘time’ in his paradigmatic and temporal conceptualisation of Shabbat.
This paper will propose that Heschel’s thought on Shabbat finds greatest
affinity with one particular phenomenologist, that of Edmund Husserl. Husserl was a German philosopher of Jewish origin, some of whose works were edited by and influential upon Emmanuel Levinas. Husserlian philosophy describes the “Internal Time-Consciousness” in the context of “transcendental” experience. In this sense, the Shabbat idea according to Heschel can be significantly enhanced through offering new insights through this phenomenological approach.
"Indian Religions in the Thought of Rav Shagar: A Jewish Theology of Nirvana and Enlightenment " ... more "Indian Religions in the Thought of Rav Shagar: A Jewish Theology of Nirvana and Enlightenment "
"דתות הודו בהגותו של הרב שג''ר: תיאולוגיה יהודית של נירוונה ונאורות"
קול קורא כנס "הרב שג"ר – הגות ומחשבה לעת הזאת" ט' באדר תש"פ / 5 במרץ 2020 אוניברסיטת בר אילן, רמ... more קול קורא
כנס "הרב שג"ר – הגות ומחשבה לעת הזאת"
ט' באדר תש"פ / 5 במרץ 2020
אוניברסיטת בר אילן, רמת גן
הרב שמעון גרשון רוזנברג – המוכר בכינויו הרב שג"ר – (1949 – 2007), מן ההוגים הבולטים של המחשבה היהודית במאה העשרים. מן הצד הסוציולוגי, מצוי היה ברב שג"ר במרכז ובשוליים של חוגי הציונות הדתית, אך דומה שמבחינה הגותית ורעיונית חשיבותו חורגת הרבה מעבר לחוגים אלה. הרב שג"ר החל את דרכו כרב ומחנך ב"ישיבת הכותל", והיה לשותף מרכזי בכמה מבתי המדרש שביקשו לפרוץ דרך ייחודית במחשבה הדתית: "מעלה.- המרכז לציונות דתית", "ישיבת שפע – מקור חיים", "ישיבת שיח יצחק", ו"בית מורשה". הוא היה לאישיות ולמורה דרך לצעירים רבים, תוך כדי שהוא כותב שיח הגותי ודתי המתמודד עם אתגרי המודרניות, הפוסטמודרניות, והשיח הפוליטי והמוסרי של העת הזאת. בחמש עשרה השנים האחרונות, זוכים כתביו לצאת לאור תוך כדי עריכה וסידור של הועד להוצאת כתביו. משנתו הולכת ומוצאת את מקומה בקרב לומדים ולומדות רבים, וזוכה גם למחקר אקדמי וחוץ אקדמי בהקשרים פילוסופיים, תיאולוגיים, היסטוריים ופוליטיים.
הכנס המתוכנן להתקיים בבר אילן, מבקש לתת במה לשיח המחקרי ההולך ומתפתח סביב הגותו של הרב שג"ר. הכנס מכוון לאפשר מבט על המחקר הקיים, להצביע על כיווני מחקר עתידיים, ולהרחיב את ההתעניינות ואת ההקשרים שבו ראוי לטעת את משנתו.
בין הכיוונים המוצעים לכנס: מקומו בהגות היהודית המודרנית ; תפיסתו ההרמנויטית ומעמדו כפרשן ; החשיבה הפוליטית של הרב שג"ר ; משנתו החינוכית ; יחסו של הרב שג"ר לפוסטמודרניזם ; הרב שג"ר בתוך שיח עם אסכולות פילוסופיות שונות.
אנו מזמינים חוקרים ותלמידי מחקר מתקדמים להגיש את הצעותיהם להשתתפות בכנס.
המועד האחרון למשלוח הצעות הוא ה 15 בינואר. תשובות יינתנו ב 1 בפברואר 2020.
את ההצעות יש לשלוח לפי הכתובת הבאה BIU.JewishPhilosophy.conference@gmail.com ________________________________________
University of Coimbra, Portugal, 2021
The Existentialist Figure of Abraham in Ephraim Meir’s Dialogical Interpretation of Franz Rosenzweig
"Scriptural Reasoning", 2020
"Scriptural Reasoning" Sourcesheet "Revealing and Concealing in Jewish, Islamic and Muslim Classi... more "Scriptural Reasoning" Sourcesheet
"Revealing and Concealing in Jewish, Islamic and Muslim Classic Sacred Texts"
ערב השקת ספר: "שארית האמונה ישראל למועדי פוסטמודרניות דרשות יהודית וזהות תרבות" של ... more ערב השקת ספר:
"שארית האמונה ישראל למועדי פוסטמודרניות דרשות יהודית וזהות תרבות"
של הרב שג''ר
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](Conference: "The Phenomenology of Faith", Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.
International Conference: Back to Redemption: Rosenzweig's Star 1919-2019 Van Leer Institute, 17... more International Conference: Back to Redemption: Rosenzweig's Star 1919-2019
Van Leer Institute, 17-20/2/2019, Jerusalem
Scriptural Reasoning, 2016
Israel Association for the Study of Religion (2016)
אתר "כיפה" ליהודת עכשווית, 2013
כיצד יכולה מטאפורה באמת להתייחס אל משהו שמעבר לעולם שלנו? כיצד אנו יוצרים משמעות באמצעות השימוש ש... more כיצד יכולה מטאפורה באמת להתייחס אל משהו שמעבר לעולם שלנו? כיצד אנו יוצרים משמעות באמצעות השימוש שלנו בשפה, בתפילה, בפתיחות לראות ניסים ולצחוק על החיים?
הרב שג"ר מאזכר את תיאוריית המטאפורה של ריצ'רד רורטי, פילוסוף אנגלו-אמריקאי (עמ' 79). רורטי מפרק את מושג האמת, וטוען כי היא בעצם מטאפורה, כלומר, הבניה אנושית באמצעותה אנו מסבירים את העולם. היא "מפילה את תמונת האנושיות", כלשונו. אף כי הרב שג"ר מאזכר תפיסה זו, ברור כי לשיטתו, כפי שרואים בכתיבתו אודות החסידות, למטאפורה כוח החורג מעבר לזה שרורטי מקנה לה: היכולת ליצור עולמות קוסמיים. את החלל הפנוי מחוללים ומאכלסים באמצעות המטאפורה.
ודווקא למעשה, ברבים מכתביו מתעניין הרב שג"ר רבות בכתיבתו של פול ריקר, ספרים אחדים שלו אף החזיק בביתו. ריקר היה פילוסוף צרפתי בן המאה העשרים המוכר אך מעט בקרב מעגליו של הרב שג"ר. למה שראש ישיבה, המשוקע בעולמה של תורה, יתעניין בדמות כזו? לא בלתי סביר כי העניין טמון בכך שפול ריקר כתב את תיאוריית המטאפורה המודרנית. דרכו הרב שג''ר מביע את עמדתו: מטאפורה היא כלי רוחני רב עוצמה, המשמש ליצירת מציאויות בהן אנו מאמינים. עבור הרב שג"ר תיאוריה זו קיימת כבר בחסידות.
Journal of Textual Reasoning, 2021
In Jewish Theology for a Postmodern Age, Miriam Feldmann Kaye engages with the philosophical cha... more In Jewish Theology for a Postmodern Age, Miriam Feldmann Kaye engages with the
philosophical challenges that postmodernity poses to the Jewish tradition and charts a course for
the future of Jewish theology in a postmodern age. Her account of postmodernism focuses on the
“cultural-linguistic turn” exemplified by thinkers like Wittgenstein and Derrida, whose work
calls into question modernist pretensions to determine universal or objective truths that transcend
the particularities of distinct communities. Although Feldmann Kaye does not claim to embrace
postmodernism wholesale, she is convinced that, rightly understood, it helps to carve out space
for religious communities, including Judaism, to develop their own distinct theological ideas and
religious practices in their own cultural-linguistic idiom, without succumbing to the sort of
relativism that would weaken religious commitment or reduce it to a merely personal choice.
Kavvanah Blog: The Book of Doctrines and Opinions - Notes on Jewish Theology and Spirituality, 2019
Thank you to Prof. Brill for hosting some of the critical questions of our times. This blog pione... more Thank you to Prof. Brill for hosting some of the critical questions of our times. This blog pioneers contemporary Jewish thought, encouraging new Jewish philosophical and literary knowledge and engagement. The nature of this particular conversation reflects a heated discussion of the array of intersections beyond postmodern thinking and Jewish philosophy. These responses partially epitomise the ambivalence towards the term ‘postmodernism’. Although, expressions of this stance deserve to be addressed with a deeper, content-based, and respectful nature, of critique.
What is apparent in this discussion typifies religious approaches towards cutting-edge theology. In a positive sense, it also exemplifies engagement with these ideas. The particular focus here is on my book, and an analysis of the theologies of Rav Shagar (Rabbi Shimon Gershon Rosenberg) and Professor Tamar Ross, but it is about a far broader picture of engagement with postmodern thinking, drawing on the wealth of writings of other Jewish thinkers. It is about the ability of Jewish thinking to cope with, or amalgamate, ideas from contemporary philosophy.
Prof Alan Brill - The Book of Doctrines and Opinions: notes on Jewish Theology and Spirituality, 2019
Feldmann Kaye’s method is to first present the theological tenor of the current age, followed by ... more Feldmann Kaye’s method is to first present the theological tenor of the current age, followed by showing how Rabbi Shagar and Prof Ross fit into this age, then to give examples and directions for expanding these ideas. Feldmann Kaye is comfortable contextualizing her subjects in postmodern thinkers even if the subjects themselves have not read them. If Wittgenstein is important in the 21st century, and her two thinkers fit into this trend of Wittgenstein, then she can offer other thinkers and ideas – such as by Paul Ricoeur, W. V. O. Quine, or Martin Heidegger- to amplify and develop the idea. This method would be akin to discussing the Existential Age of Buber, Sartre and Camus, then showing that Heschel and Soloveitchik should be contextualized as Existentialists, and concluding with ideas from Tillich, Maritain, or Rahner.
All her discussion points to Feldmann Kaye’s own “visionary theology” bursting out between the lines of the book never articulated, even with my coaxing for this interview. She has sympathy for the post-secular 21st century ideas of Richard Kearney’s anantheism and Jean Luc Marion’s saturated event. She wants to open up to a theology “which does not rely on an ultimate and singular truth, but posits instead that the notion of a multiplicity of truths.” For Feldmann-Kaye “The implications are twofold: firstly, since faith does not lend itself to scientific verification, it becomes difficult to justify a preference for one’s own world view or way of life. Second, if such truths are perceived as culturally particular social constructs, their prime function is limited to defining communal boundaries.” I heard part of it at the World Congress of Jewish Studies in 2017. I hope to hear more.
The book focuses on three specific themes in their thought, (1) Cultural Particularism, (2) Language, and (3) Revelation.
In 1979, Lyotard published The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, a work acknowledging that the era of modernism and existentialism had ended. In its place, Lyotard offered skepticism about universalizing theories and a rejection of universals and metanarratives. Feldmann Kaye relies heavily on this seminal work to define the philosophic climate of our era.
International Conference Bar Ilan University : The Thought and Influence of Rabbi Sacks,, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-QKfE\_3oXc
European Academy of Religion, 2022
Bar Ilan University in conjunction with Machon Schechter , 2022
"Revelation and Authority: Sinai in Jewish Scripture and Tradition" Benjamin Sommer - Book Launch... more "Revelation and Authority: Sinai in Jewish Scripture and Tradition" Benjamin Sommer - Book Launch in Israel
Jewish Theological Seminary, 2022
Parashat Yitro is framed by the geographical and conceptual ideas of exile and homecoming. Agains... more Parashat Yitro is framed by the geographical and conceptual ideas of exile and homecoming. Against the backdrop of Bereishit, the notion of movement is critical in framing the experiences of biblical characters: the exile from Eden; the exile of Cain; the “calls” to Abraham, Jacob, and others to move, relocate, and find new homes. Even the climax of the story—the giving of the Torah—will not happen upon arrival in the homeland, but rather, on the move:
וַיִּסְעוּ מֵרְפִידִים, וַיָּבֹאוּ מִדְבַּר סִינַי, וַיַּחֲנוּ, בַּמִּדְבָּר; וַיִּחַן-שָׁם יִשְׂרָאֵל, נֶגֶד הָהָר
Setting out from Refidim they had arrived at the Sinai desert, encamping in the wilderness, and there Israel camped, facing the mountain, while Moshe went up to God. [1]
(Exod. 19:2)
The Torah is set to be given at an unknown site, in an encampment of no-man’s land, and surrounded by the wilderness. This setting amidst desert-wandering is appropriate for the giving of Torah and the people themselves, as strangers here, are worthy of receiving it. The parashah’s opening attests to this with a reminder that the name given to Moses’s son, Gershom, was an expression of the experience of being a stranger in a strange land:
Transcendence and Revelation on the centenary of Franz Rosenzweig's Star of Redemption.