Description
Book SynopsisConsiders how teacher/student relations sustain and renew the Jewish tradition
Trade Review"The book was written to be accessible and its insights, literary and education, are relevant to the many readers of these rabbinic sources, and to teachers and lecturers seeking insight from Jewish sources."
-- Pinchas Roth * Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews *
"Her book wonderfully demonstrates the creative interplay between traditional learning and contemporary intellectual freedom . . . Rabbis, and all of us, would do well to internalize Handelman's call to see teaching as not an add-on but a central category of human experience."
-- Yehudah Mirsky * Jewish Ideas Daily *
"Handelman’s book drew me into a world I knew little about, providing a heretofore neglected, but intriguing space for thinking about the teacher-student relationship. . . . That Handelman wrote this book when bombs were exploding throughout Jerusalem – including at the university where she teaches – demonstrates that the teacher-student relationship lives, and may be even more critical, during crises."
-- Mitzi J. Smith * Teaching Theology & Religion *
Table of ContentsPreface
A Note on Translation and Transliteration of Hebrew
Notes on Notes
Introduction
"I Only Want the Piece Which Is in Your Mouth"
1. "Torah of the Belly": Rabbi Eliezer Starves for a Teacher
2. "The Gates of Wounded Feelings"" Rabbi Eliezer Is Banned
3. "Father! Father! Israel's Chariot and Its Horsemen!": The Passing of Rabbi Eliezer
Epilogue
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
