AUDIO: On the Threshold of Forgiveness; Law and Narrative in the Talmud
The 16th annual
Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Jerusalem Lecture--held March 21 at the DePaul
University Lincoln Park Student Center--featured Professor Moshe
Halbertal, Gruss Professor at New York University School of Law and
Professor of Jewish Thought and Philosophy at the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem. Halbertal spoke about the relationship between law and
narrative in the Talmud in the context of forgiveness. Father Thomas
Baima then read a response from Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I., who
could not be in attendance. Halbertal is recipient of the Bruno Award of
the Rothschild Foundation and the Goldstein-Goren Award—best book in
Jewish Thought in the years 1997-2000. His most recent book is By Way of
Truth: Nachmanides and the Creation of Tradition (published in Hebrew).
The program was sponsored by the Archdiocese of Chicago, The American
Jewish Committee, Chicago Board of Rabbis, Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Chicago, and Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies. The 2011
co-sponsor is DePaul University: Catholic Studies, Religious Studies,
Center for Interreligious Engagement, Center for Intercultural Programs,
Office for Institutional Diversity and Equity, and University Ministry.
