Sublime

I was allowing myself—my I—to be read by the text.

Unable to comprehend their own history, they cannot truly hear God’s message or speak their own redemption.

Chava Rosenfarb’s The Tree of Life,

Buber’s articulation of the paradox of prophecy comes to mind: “It is laid upon the stammering to bring the voice of Heaven to Earth?”

She acted out of chessed, a loving kindness that saw not only the bleak reality but the possibilities of redemption that may still break through the harsh surface of an unredeemed world.

Not knowing underlies all of Pharaoh’s persecution policies.

These words emerge “from out of the Burning Bush,” from the thorny complexity of human pain.

the singularly masculine “man Moses,” who becomes the “man of God”—discovers in himself an essentially feminine dimension.

The Hebrew contains an extraordinary play on words, untranslatable into English.