This posting stayed with me, probably because in my day job I think a lot about literacy and what it means to be literate. It reminded me of the wise words of Paulo Freire, the Brazilian literacy educator who believed that people need to read the word AND the world, and that in fact reading the world precedes reading the word. To be Jewishly literate, as Shira suggests, we need to read our foundational texts through our reading of the world.
This posting stayed with me, probably because in my day job I think a lot about literacy and what it means to be literate. It reminded me of the wise words of Paulo Freire, the Brazilian literacy educator who believed that people need to read the word AND the world, and that in fact reading the world precedes reading the word. To be Jewishly literate, as Shira suggests, we need to read our foundational texts through our reading of the world.