Group Work on The Coming of Lilith
Note: If you were not in class for this group exercise, please
complete it as a written exercise and turn it in as soon as you can.
- After dividing into small groups, let each group discuss the
following:
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1. Try to explain what is going on in Plaskow's Jewish identity being
strengthened by her experience in a Christian-dominated institution.
How does this relate to her discovery of feminism in a traditional
Jewish context? Why do you think she discusses these in the same
paragraph? (pp. 9-10)
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2. What was Plaskow's experience of using difference as a source of
power and growth in a community? What does this suggest to you?
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3. What happened in 1982? What did this lead Plaskow to call into
question?
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- 4. What is the problem discussed in the paragraph that begins on
the bottom of p. 53? What response to this challenge does Plaskow
recommend? What do you think of this?
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5. What kind of problem and solution regarding projection are being
discussed on pp. 63-64? What do you think of this?
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- Michael Kagan
Philosophies of Judaism
March, 2007
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