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The Disputation in Barcelona: Theatrical Challenges – Part 3

November 5, 2020 by Yael Valier Leave a Comment

Jewish audiences are highly invested in the outcome of any play featuring controversy between Christians and Jews. For Jewish audiences, this is not just an interesting play about a past event. In the Jewish psyche, medieval disputation is simply another event in a continuous line of trials, persecutions, expulsions, missionizing, book-burnings, and pogroms. Jewish practice keeps ancient events fresh.

Filed Under: Jewish Thought and Philosophy Tagged With: Disputation in Barcelona, Nachmanides, Ramban, Theatre

The Disputation in Barcelona: Theatrical Challenges – Part 2

October 29, 2020 by Yael Valier Leave a Comment

This publication was made possible with the support of the Louis and Dina Van de Kamp Foundation, August 2020 Dear Friends. In May, 2017, Yael Valier, a student and contributor to the David Cardozo Think Tank, launched a remarkable play about the famous Disputation of Barcelona. This disputation about the respective truths of Judaism and […]

Filed Under: Jewish Thought and Philosophy Tagged With: Disputation in Barcelona, Nahmanides, theater

The Disputation in Barcelona: Theatrical Challenges – Part 1

October 22, 2020 by Yael Valier Leave a Comment

In the context of the launch of a new theater company whose mission is to bring entertaining theological content to audiences in and around Jerusalem, Roy Doliner’s Divine Right was chosen as the company’s first production. This play about the Disputation of Barcelona balances historical accuracy and creative dramatic content in a satisfying and intellectually honest portrayal of the events of the Disputation for educated lay audiences. This paper examines the technical, dramaturgical, and theological issues that arose during this production for the playwright, director, actors, and audiences.

Filed Under: Jewish Thought and Philosophy

What makes a “spiritual experience”?

November 26, 2017 by Yael Valier 3 Comments

What turns a spiritual experience into a religious one is the training and preparation that creates a religiously shaped receptacle for an experience or at least a religious vector for channeling the experience.

Tisha b’Av: Can we still mourn? A reply to Rav Cardozo

August 21, 2016 by Yael Valier 2 Comments

Rabbi Cardozo writes: “Maybe we should literally go out in the streets and help people, sit down with our ideological enemies and see where we can find common ground, instead of simply reciting more kinot?” And yet, there are reasons why we should continue to fast and read Eichah on Tisha b’Av. Here are just a few of those reasons

When religious arguments descend into Hareidi bashing

March 6, 2016 by Yael Valier 1 Comment

Recently yet another opportunity for Hareidi-bashing appeared, with the news that an 81 year-old woman is suing El Al after being forced to switch seats because a Hareidi man refused to sit next to her.
Rabbi Marc Angel commented on the incident in a short article, “Thoughts on the Scandal on an El Al Airplane.” But Rabbi Angel’s critique misses a crucial point. In fact, there’s reason to applaud one aspect of the Hareidi worldview.

Homosexuality

August 27, 2013 by Yael Valier 5 Comments

Dear TT-ers,
Recently, I have been wondering if we can used proven halachic methodologies to ease the suffering of homosexuals in Orthodoxy.

Competing values and the beauty of the irrational choice

April 21, 2013 by Yael Valier 3 Comments

This Friday morning, I had a real-life competing values choice to make. I was making challah when I noticed a blood spot in one of the two eggs I was checking. Automatically, I made a move to throw the eggs away.

Lying to the Bet Din

August 12, 2012 by Yael Valier Leave a Comment

Following a lecture by Rabbi Cardozo, I was thinking about the problem of converts coming before a beit din and feeling pressured to lie to the effect

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