Dena Weiss. Summer Lecture Series: Dangerous Torah, Part 1 - The Torah is a complicated tool. Sometimes, the Torah appears more successful in molding us as God's people: like God, close to God, and good to one another. But, sometimes Torah encourages or enables negative aspects of individuals to come to the fore, often with bad repercussions for society. And sometimes people who do not represent God's values come to represent God's Torah. Together, we'll think deeply about the question of whether bad people can produce good Torah or whether good Torah can produce bad people. How are we to relate to Torah that has a tainted pedigree and how do we love a Torah that doesn't always produce the good that we expect?