Binding of Isaac
The temptation is overwhelming to excuse or soften the drama of Genesis 22. A leading professor of Jewish thought explains how to get past that, and what meaning lies beyond it.
Not a mistake.
Satan at the seder.
Isaac unbound.
Jennie Litvack, in memoriam.
An atheist philosopher’s critique of atheism.
It’s not about the tension between human moral sensibilities and divine command.
Not about love but about consecration.
A literary-midrashic approach.
If Judaism’s idea of art is one that can truly represent our frail, fallible humanity, then Rembrandt, who captured faces “without any attempt to beautify them,” is the artist for Jews.
Kalonimos Shapiro’s hidden manuscripts.
One offered his daughters to the mob, the other his son to God.
Although the prophet Samuel declares that “the Glory of Israel does not lie,” most medieval Christian theologians, going back to Augustine, believed that although God. . .
