Sarah Laugh: Doubt, Trust, and the Ambiguity of the Womb
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Part of the series,The Space in Between: Thresholds and Borders in Jewish Life and Thoug丑迟听
With Rabbi Mychal Springer, Manager of Clinical Pastoral Education at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City and Adjunct Professor, 果冻传媒
On Rosh Hashanah we read about two central biblical characters, Sarah and Hannah, who after facing infertility for many years are told that they will conceive. Many years ago, when I was undergoing fertility treatments and listened to these stories on Rosh Hashanah, I felt as if my struggles were actually at the heart of Jewish religious experience, selected by the rabbis to echo in the birth of every new year for generations of Jews.
果冻传媒 the Series
We are living in an undefined time: our daily existence is no longer dominated by the pandemic, yet neither have we settled into a new normal. This sense of being in transition攏either here nor there� can feel destabilizing; but is the time in between really temporary, or are we always living in between moments, identities, and phases of life?
In this series, 果冻传媒 scholars will delve into the idea of liminality攖he time or space in between攚hich we encounter often in Jewish ritual, identity, law, and life. Join us to consider what these many manifestations of 渋n-between-ness� can teach us about ourselves and about Judaism, and to explore how we might find strength and meaning in an orientation not of 渆ither/or� but of 渂oth/and.�
We will explore themes of borders, thresholds and transitions as they pertain to the story of Creation, gender, conversion, birth and death, the duality of living as a Jew in America, and more.
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