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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Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg

b. 1944

Born in London and brought up in Glasgow, Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg is a Torah scholar, author, educator, and lecturer. Zornberg lives in Jerusalem and is an instructor in Tanakh at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies. She also teaches at the London School of Jewish Studies. In 1995 she received the National Jewish Book Award for nonfiction.

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