Sagit Mor, Dr.

• Rabbinic literature
• My main occupation is social issues

• Gender issues in Halacha
• “I am eradicating thorns from the vineyard” (T.B. bava metzi’a 83b) – Dilemmas and models of dealing with delinquency in the mirror of Talmudic literature
• Stories of Beit Midrash as a mirror for dilemmas in organizations and communities
• Tikkun Olam – Social justices in the Jewish sources
• Attitudes toward Others in the Rabbinic Literature

• Book: “Captivity is Harder than All”: Captives, Captivity and the Discourse of Captivity in the Rabbinic Literature
• “Group Dynamics in Beit Midrash Organizations: Revisiting the Legend of the Conflict between Rabbi Yohanan and Resh Lakish (Babylonian Talmud, Bava Metzi’a 84a),” Journal of Rabbinic Review 25 (2022), 48-69.
• “Editorial considerations for halakhic aggregats: a literary-jurisprudential study of the ‘for the ways of peace’ aggregat in the Mishna (Gittin 5, 9-10),” Dine Israel 37 (2023), 33-69 [Hebrew].

I am a member of Kibbutz Ein Hasofet and define myself as a secular woman. As a member of a kibbutz, I celebrated the various Jewish ceremonies – holidays, weddings, bar mitzvahs, etc. – in a format that combined respect for the sources with a lot of thought on their compatibility with a Jewish, Zionist and secular worldview.
Even today I combine academic research, teaching and the application of the various issues in which I am involved in my life and the life of my community. In the past I have guided couples to study the traditional marriage ceremony, demand it, and integrate their worldview into it.
I believe that Jewish culture has always been open to study, interpretation and design, from a dialogue between different concepts and currents within it, as well as outside it. I call on all of us to connect to the chain of generations and the various sources, and in a respectful dialogue, which also allows itself to criticize them at times, to shape from them as Jews and as Israelis, our answers to the challenges of the hour.