Jewish American Heritage Month

Posted By admin on April 23, 2022

The Cosmic Library explores massive books in order to explore everything else. Here, books that can seem overwhelmingbooks of dreams, infinity, mysteriesturn out to be intensely accessible, offering so many different ways to read them and think with them. Season one considered Finnegans Wake; in season two, it was 1,001 Nights. Season three, titled Mosaic Mosaicjourneys through and beyond the Hebrew Bible.

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We regulate each others nervous systems, says the neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett in this chapter of Mosaic Mosaic. We are the caretakers of each others nervous systems. So feelingand thinkingand the regulations of law join together; the idea that laws exist apart from our nervous systems, our feelings, doesnt quite work, in this sense.

The poet Peter Cole here describes an emotional state associated with the language of rules and ritual in the Hebrew Bible, and in Leviticus particularly. He says, I was just totally spellbound by the choreography of sacrifice. And the novelist Joshua Cohen speaks of living law, a kind of vitallegal system that emanates beyond the Torah, through commentary and debates ever after.

Laws, rules, rituals: these, youll hear, are all alive with feeling. Regulation doesnt mean damping down, Lisa Feldman Barrett says. It just means coordinating and making something happen. Poet and critic Elisa Gabbert describes poetry as a vibration, which in a way might match the nervous-system correspondence described by Lisa Feldman Barrett. In literature as in legal regulation, we learn in this chapter, language coordinates responses and participates in the merging of thought with emotion.

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Peter Cole is a poet and MacArthur genius whose new book,Draw Me After,will be out this fall.

Elisa Gabbertis a poet and poetry columnist with the New York Times. Her latest book, Normal Distance, will be out this fall.

Lisa Feldman Barrettis a psychologist, neuroscientist, and author of books including How Emotions Are Made.

Tom DeRoseis a curator at the Freud Museum in London.

Joshua Cohenis a novelist whose books include Book of Numbers.

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Rules, Rituals, and Laws of Emotion in the Hebrew Bible - Literary Hub

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