Dr. Devorah Schoenfeld looks into masekhet Bava Kamma, highlighting its discussion of how to live in a world in which we sometimes fall, and how to take responsibility for our role in it.

Dr. Devorah Schoenfeld is Associate Professor of Jewish Theology at Loyola University Chicago, a Jesuit Catholic University. She is also a student in the Yeshivat Maharat Kollel. Her book Isaac on Jewish and Christian Altars (Fordham, 2012) compares Jewish and Christian medieval approaches to the near-sacrifice of Isaac, and she has also written on Midrash, dream interpretation, and Jewish-Christian relations.