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Dara Horn • People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
A Letter in the Scroll: Understanding Our Jewish Identity and Exploring the Legacy of the World's Oldest Religion
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The term that is used in classic mystical texts to describe this constricted condition is Galut ha-dibbur—the Exile of the Word. Language itself suffers a kind of alienation; it loses its force and is lost to human access. At
Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg • Moses: A Human Life (Jewish Lives)
The Torah is an extended wrestling with the question of human association.
Jonathan Sacks • To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
After his father fell upon difficult times (another biographical detail common to many of the early Zionist leaders), Ahad Ha’am decided to move to Odessa, the hub of the intellectual Jewish renaissance to which he was so drawn. The sole Russian city in which Jews were permitted to live, Odessa was home to a thriving Jewish intellectual milieu; man
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The Hebrew contains an extraordinary play on words, untranslatable into English.
Jonathan Sacks • To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
Born in 1856 in Ukraine (four years before Herzl’s birth), Asher Zvi Ginzberg took on the pen name Ahad Ha’am (“One of the People”), by which he is
Daniel Gordis • Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
As Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik has explained, the Torah is a covenant of being, not of doing.** The goal is the completion of being, the full realization of humanness. It is not a utilitarian contract designed for useful ends so that if the advantage is lost, the agreement is dropped. The covenant is a commitment on the part of each partner to be
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