The Confounding Origins of the Term "Hebrew"
The word is freighted with both theological and national meaning, which points not just to a semantic tension but to a permanent tension within Jewish identity itself.
The Heretic Whose Teachings the Talmud Preserved and Transmitted
Elisha ben Avuyah became a vehicle for exploring the agonizing conundrums the rabbis were too honest to ignore but too pious to articulate.
The Heretic Whose Teachings the Talmud Preserved and Transmitted
Elisha ben Avuyah became a vehicle for exploring the agonizing conundrums the rabbis were too honest to ignore but too pious to articulate.
The Buried, Raging Sermons of the Warsaw Ghetto Rabbi
Sermons from the Years of Rage, 1939-1942, hidden during the war and now released in a new edition, is a rabbinic work unlike any since the destruction of the First Temple.
The Buried, Raging Sermons of the Warsaw Ghetto Rabbi
Sermons from the Years of Rage, 1939-1942, hidden during the war and now released in a new edition, is a rabbinic work unlike any since the destruction of the First Temple.
The Difference between a Biblical Scholar and a Philosopher
The former seeks answers; the latter seeks the questions that can help situate human beings existentially and rationally within the universe.