Religion & Beliefs

Sex and the Sugya

By Lori Schneide / January 28, 2008

On TV, women dish endless midrashim on the guys in their lives their idiosyncrasies in the bedroom, their chest hair and what to do about it. Me? I’m more a Talmud gal.

What’s a Talmud gal? We’re women who are more interested in using our minds to think than using our minds to speculate. We sit with hard ideas, and crack at them until we can suck the meat from the nut. We have well-trained minds, seasoned from years in the academy and neo-yeshivot where we are welcomed, where Yentls of the 21st century can show up with blown-out hair and well-moisturized skin. We plunge into the page, tearing at the sugya. We wrestle with Rav, plunge with Papa and shimmy with Shimon.

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  • By TalmudGal 1/30/08 at 12:26 a.m. UTC

    I see you really understand the nature of this piece – to arouse in others the desire to learn Talmud.   Perhaps Jewcy should have a "daph a day" blog where we could all create running cutting-edge commentary based on text…hmm…

    Thanks for getting it and thanks for inspiring me back!

     

  • By Soccer 1/29/08 at 3:41 p.m. UTC

    Sounds cool, now lets here some learning:  Its great that you talk about being a learner, but I would love to actually read some of your discussion of taking different issues on – in depth.

     

    bring it on, lets learn Talmud gal, so we can forget about the gal part and focus on the Talmud part!

  • By deb@traveljewish.com 1/29/08 at 2:44 p.m. UTC

    Schneide–

    So good to see your passion on the page. Love your love for learning!

    deb@traveljewish.com

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