Sacred Realms: Canon and Creativity - The Parallels of Midrash and Fan Fiction

We are back after a post-Passover break with our first full episode this year! We hope you will enjoy it, and tell your friends about it!

In this episode of Sacred Realms, Canon and Creativity - The Parallels of Midrash and Fan Fiction, Rabbis Andrew and Lindsey talk about the human drive to embrace canons of myths and narratives and then to creatively develop and expand those worlds.

We begin with this month’s She’lah / The Question of the Month: If you could write fan fiction in any sci-fi or fantasy realm, which one would you choose? Then on to what we have been watching or reading lately. Then we delve into this episode’s main topic: Canon and Creativity, the parallels between fan-created fiction and rabbinic midrash (creative filling of biblical narrative or exp ...