Last week, we began delving into the text of Yiftach’s vow to discover his daughter’s fate. In today’s class, we will continue exploring our own insights as well as a range of perspectives of others: from “Yiftach meant to kill her and he did” to “Yiftach never intended human sacrifice, and he didn’t.”
How can the same text yield so many vastly different possibilities?
Perhaps we will gain insight into that, too.