Jewish Thought
While others saw him as a skeptic.
When news of the Jewish justice’s death spread last week, so did a lot of weird claims about how Jews should mourn and what they believe. It’s time to clear things up.
Not a mistake.
That’s not a bad thing, but a sensitive new biography is still worth reading.
Seven decades of Tradition.
He understood his adopted country’s potential, and its vulnerabilities.
A lost work by Abraham Isaac Kook.
No kabbalist, but someone who yearned for mystical union with the Divine.
A noted philosopher’s critique of one of liberalism’s most treasured theories clears room for a conception of politics informed by Judaism.
An 18th-century rabbi and theologian from a forgotten Jewish sect.
“We look forward to hearing your paper on why the gods must be fed the blood of sacrificial victims.”
Why didn’t Moses receive the Torah at the bottom of the mountain?
A controversial figure.
Divine because of Who gave it, or divine because of what it is?