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Notes from Limmud 2006: On Language and Identity—Sugiyot from Massechet Sotah
Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007 01:08 pm( When should one pray in Hebrew, and when can one in the vernacular? The Mishna's examples of which language can be used when suggests a connection between certain prayers, the language one may use for them, and how the speaker should be identifying themselves at that time. )
( Whether the Shema and Amida can be said in the vernacular, and why, and how the post-Talmudic authorities reacted to this. )
( How the meaning of a single letter in the description of the nation-defining moment on Mts Eval and Gerizim leads (eventually) to a description of just how far Joseph let himself get seduced by Potiphar's wife... and what the relevance of this is to the topic under discussion. )
( Whether the Shema and Amida can be said in the vernacular, and why, and how the post-Talmudic authorities reacted to this. )
( How the meaning of a single letter in the description of the nation-defining moment on Mts Eval and Gerizim leads (eventually) to a description of just how far Joseph let himself get seduced by Potiphar's wife... and what the relevance of this is to the topic under discussion. )
