Bet Aviv Lunch and Learn

If you could visit the future, and see how your own writings are being studied – would you do it?
How are we remembered, and who has the license to interpret our own body of work (or
God’s)? These questions are explored by this tale, in which God transports Moses from Sinai to
R. Akiva’s Beit Midrash. In the crises that unfold there, the Rabbis reveal their own humorous
self-awareness at the extent of re-interpretation that the Rabbinic project involved. In the
meantime, Moses is forced to deal with his own imposter syndrome. And God teaches a valuable lesson about the centrality of silence.