This is Unheard Cuts on Being. I'm Christa Tippett. You're listening to my unedited conversation

with the Vivizzorn Burke. She is a celebrated literary teacher of Torah. Her books include

the murmuring deep reflections on the biblical unconscious and the beginning of desire

reflections on Genesis. I spoke with her in her home in Jerusalem on March 16, 2011. This interview

is included in our show The Genesis of Desire. Download the MP3 of the produced show at

Unbeing.org.

Yeah, I spent most of the 80's and it's a divided Berlin, but also it's probably covering

other parts of Eastern Europe. So you weren't always in the faith sector? No, I'm back, I wasn't.

I don't know. I don't know, that's something.

Are we set up? We're close, yeah. I was just noticing how we might unplug the refrigerator

where he went. There's that low. Do you want to have anything in front of any text or anything?

I have a paper, but I don't know. Okay, fine, I'll do it. I guess I have some of these.

You can break. We feel free to put it down now.

I'm trying to find the lights that are coming.

Oh, there's something coming. Maybe it's in here. Oh, that's the problem.

No, it's a syrup. I think it would be awesome. No, no, that did it.

That's really tough. It's tough. It's tough to see what it's the combination of all of them.

So, for example, trying to, if we didn't need that one over there,

yeah, you can, we need these though. No, that one is, it's these things.

It's these things. You sit down and we can, you know, if you would sit down.

Okay. Remind me what your Scottish connection was. I grew up in Scotland. You did.

My father was a rabbi in Glasgow. So did your mother grow up in Romania?

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