Avivah Zornberg — Human Becoming, Between Biblical Lines

On Being with Krista Tippett

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🗓️ 14 April 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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You probably know the outline of the Exodus story and its main characters: Moses, the Pharaoh, the burning bush, the plagues, the parting of the sea. And, in another realm of the power of story, the words “let my people go” and the arc of liberation from slavery have inspired people in crisis and catharsis across time and cultures. Call it “myth” if you will — as the Greek Statesman Solon said, myth is not something that never happened. It’s something that happens over and over and over again. Avivah Zornberg walks us through the Exodus story that is relived in the Jewish Passover and resonates through Easter. She is a modern-day master of midrash — the ancient Jewish art of inquiry for discovering the deepest of meaning in and between the biblical lines. What can look simple on the surface, as she reveals, is a cargo of hidden stories that tell the messy, strange, redemptive truth of us as we are and life as it is. Krista and Avivah Zornberg had this lovely, intimate conversation in the early days of this show, in 2005.

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0:00.0	On Being With Christa Tippett is supported in part by the Fetzer Institute, helping build
0:04.8	the Spiritual Foundation for a Loving World.
0:07.9	Fetzer's sharing Spiritual Heritage Report asks, how will we reimagine our spiritual
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0:18.1	You probably know the outlines of the Exodus story or the main characters, Moses, the
0:24.2	arrow, the burning bush, the plagues, the parting of the sea.
0:29.1	And in another realm of the power of story, the words, let my people go, and the arc of
0:34.9	liberation from slavery which has inspired people in crisis and catharsis across time and
0:41.2	cultures.
0:42.6	Call it myth, if you will.
0:44.2	I like the definition of the Greek statesman Solon that myth is not something which never
0:49.4	happened but something that happens over and over and over again.
0:55.0	My guest this hour of Viva Zornberg walks us through the Exodus story that is relived
1:00.4	in the Jewish Passover and resonates through Easter.
1:04.3	She is a modern-day master of Midrash, the ancient Jewish art of inquiry for discovering
1:09.8	the deepest of meanings in and between the biblical lines.
1:14.7	What can look simple on the surface as she reveals is a cargo of hidden stories that tell
1:21.2	the messy, strange, redemptive truth of us as we are and life as it is.
1:28.6	I'm Christa Tippett and this is on Beeing.
1:38.6	Exodus is the second book of the Torah, the Hebrew Bible, the Christian Old Testament.
1:44.5	As it opens, the ancient Israelites have become slaves in the land of Egypt where they once
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