Cecilia Haendler introduces masekhet Parah, unpacking the ritual of the red heifer and exploring how it creates a mysterious and powerful bridge to Oral Torah.
Cecilia Haendler introduces masekhet Parah, unpacking the ritual of the red heifer and exploring how it creates a mysterious and powerful bridge to Oral Torah.
Cecilia Haendler, born in Florence, Italy, lives in Paris with her husband Yair and is doing a PhD on gendered metaphorical language in Tannaitic literature at the Freie Universität Berlin. For the series A Feminist Commentary on the Babylonian Talmud she is writing about Hallah, Orlah and Bikkurim. She has worked as a research associate in the project A Digital Synopsis of the Mishnah and Tosefta and she has learned at the Nishmat Center for Advanced Torah Study.