What is Sugia | עמוד דיון
תקציר
What is Sugia
A network of active discourse and learning on contemporary issues
A network of networks
Our ambitious goal is to create a “network of networks” of Jewish communities who will connect and discuss with one another, bridging gaps of geography and ideology and eventually creating a Wiki-like version of the collective wisdom of contemporary Judaism.
Sugia will create a dynamic global Jewish discourse that gives rise to a Wiki-like response to the great questions of our time.
Talmudic Inspiration
Our project is inspired by the Talmudic tradition of mahloket, a unique invention of our ancestors, who created a mode of constructive debate which bridges rather than builds walls between us. Participants do not have to be familiar with the Talmud. On the contrary, they might have never even heard of it! The platform and content of Sugia is designed to be inviting and accessible to a wide spectrum of users.
סיכום ביניים
Sugia fosters vibrant dialogue about the burning ethical and existential issues of our time. It is a new media platform for Jews worldwide to meet and think together.
Ancient texts come to life through their interaction with modern film, art and literature, in an interactive, user-generated experience.
Sugia involves Jews of all walks of life—from the unaffiliated to the religious—inviting them be part of a dynamic conversation facilitated by prominent, thinkers, community leaders, and artists, of our time.
Our project is inspired by the Talmudic tradition of mahloket, a unique invention of our ancestors, who created a mode of constructive debate which bridges rather than builds walls between us.
הדיון המורחב
Many Jewish Internet sites use the web as a platform for posting unidirectional material. Although there are some discussion-oriented forums, Sugia realizes the full interactive, user-generated potential of new media, integrating and editing active discussion with written, image, audio, and video material. Sugia empowers participants to choose issues relevant to their lives and to actively create their own sugiot. They become engaged “prosumers”: consumers and producers of content. Here Sugia can complement Keva by extending an online platform to their face to face groups enriching their cultural and issues-based learning.
Sugia elicits a wide variety of “texts” – including films, art with classical and
contemporary texts – and brings them into dialogue with one another. It enables free movement from Jewish sources to Seinfeld and Shakespeare, and the ability to create an interaction between them.
This fusion of texts sets Sugia apart from other resources. For example, we have agreed with Sefaria to tap their database of classical Jewish texts as one of our resources for our multimedia sugyot.
A major element Sugia taken from Talmudic reasoning is the dispute (machloket). It does not shy away from conflict. On the contrary, the multiplicity of voices at the heart of Sugia, transforms rigid positions into respectful productive and reflective dialogue.
תגובות אחרונות
מקורות אחרונים
A pluralistic meeting point
A fusion of resources
This fusion of texts sets Sugia apart from other resources.
New Media “Prosumers”
Many Jewish Internet sites use the web as a platform for posting unidirectional material.