Authors Posts by Marina Zilbergerts
Marina Zilbergerts
Marina Zilbergerts is the author of Reading Genesis in the Age of AI (Routledge, forthcoming), The Yeshiva and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature (Indiana University Press), and the poetry collection You Were Adam (Wipf and Stock). She is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa. She writes on Jewish thought, faith, and culture at her Substack, The Inner Light.
Does God Play? What a Talmudic Story Teaches Us About Consciousness
In this analysis of Avodah Zara 3b, which states what God does throughout each day, Marina Zilbergerts uncovers ideas about divine consciousness and human consciousness alike.
Wicked
In this poetic tale from Marina Zilbergerts's recent poetry book You Were Adam (Wipf and Stock), a learned and passionate woman struggles with her yetser hara, nicknamed "Wicked." The yetser is imagined as a fantastic character who accompanies her through Jewish Toronto's banal suburbia. "Wicked '' is a sympathetic and tragic apikores who knows how to get her where it hurts, but he also speaks the truth. He is a careful social observer present with her at all times. From going on weekly shopping trips, being in shul, to more intimate moments, this demonic character becomes her unlikely friend. In an ironic twist, the lessons taught to her by her yetser help her embark on the path of repentance.
Tzaddik ve-Ra Lo: Revisiting the Problem of Evil in Chaim Grade’s My Quarrel with...
Marina Zilbergerts presents the philosophical questions posed by Chaim Grade's “My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner,” and compares his arguments to those of other major thinkers such as Voltaire, Rousseau, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche.
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