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God is sometimes “mighty” only as a reflection of God’s inaction. This is a subversive, but Rabbinically authentic, understanding of “great, mighty, and awesome” that acknowledges in some way the disconnect between the active God of Moses’s phrase and the hidden God in our current world.
Rabbi Elie Kaunfer • Empowered Judaism: What Independent Minyanim Can Teach Us about Building Vibrant Jewish Communities

Lori S. Biesecker
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a hyperliteral reading of the rabbinic dictum that the wicked are called “dead” even in their lives, whereas the righteous are called “living” even in their deaths.
Elliot R. Wolfson • Open Secret: Postmessianic Messianism and the Mystical Revision of Menaḥem Mendel Schneerson


Chava Rosenfarb’s The Tree of Life,