February 8: Tobit: A Model of Jewish Charity
CBI Social Hall, in person and on livestream 
Led by Joel Kaminsky. 

This talk will focus on the wonderful story of Tobit, an ancient Jewish book preserved in the Catholic Bible that draws on various folk motifs and highlights the importance of tsedakah (charity) and the mizvah of burying the dead.

Joel Kaminsky is the Morningstar Professor of Jewish Studies at Smith College where he courses on the Hebrew Bible and on ancient Jewish religion and literature. His research explores the interaction between narrative and theological currents in the Hebrew Bible and Rabbinic literature and seeks to illuminate the overlapping but not quite distinct ways that Jews and Christians over the past two millennia have interpreted the Hebrew Bible. He has authored, co-authored, and co-edited several books as well as published many essays and book reviews in both scholarly and more popular journals.