The Concealed Alternative
Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
1992
What is the testimony that proves my guilt? The punishment itself. Although Naomi says that she must have been guilty, it’s as if she doesn’t really know what she is guilty of. It’s only when things happen to her that she says, I assume, in a world that has meaning, in a world in which there is God, that these things that have happened to me serve…
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