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Through narrative, poetry, law, and prayer, the Bible conditions its readers to feel reverence for nature, enjoins restraint in the exploitation of natural resources for human needs, elicits awe in…
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David M. Gordis
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Albany, United States of America
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2001
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February 9, 2000
Dear Ammi,
It was a pleasure meeting you in person last week. […]
I wonder what the staff and the other patrons thought about the two of us sitting there, me with my beard, peyot…
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Ammiel Hirsch, Ammiel Hirsch
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New York, United States of America
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2002
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1. We have now obtained a preliminary articulation of reason and religion; we turn now to the sources of Judaism, out of which the religion of reason should be derived. We ought…
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Hermann Cohen
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1919
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The wilderness is not just a desert through which we wandered for forty years. It is a way of being. A place that demands being open to the flow of life around you. A place that demands being…
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Lawrence Kushner
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San Francisco, United States of America
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1977
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Early trauma—defence—latency—outbreak of the neurosis—partial return of the repressed material: this was the formula we drew up for the development of a neurosis. Now I will invite the…
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Sigmund Freud
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London, United Kingdom
New York City, United States of America
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1939
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The Jewish people did not begin to philosophize because of an irresistible urge to do so. They received philosophy from outside sources, and the history of Jewish philosophy is a history of the…
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Julius Guttmann
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1933
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“God’s writing engraved on the
tablets”—read not harut (engraved)
but herut (freedom).
—Sayings of the Fathers VI, 2
Among all the problems of present-day Jewish life, that of youth’s attitude…
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Martin Buber
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1919
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“There is (thus) a zone of insecurity in human affairs,” remarks William James in his essay on The Importance of Individuals, “in which all the…
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Max Kadushin
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Madison, United States of America
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1938
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A natural history of the Jewish mind is impossible. The Jewish mind, as a natural and empirical phenomenon, is an absurdity. It consists in but the pale images of…
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Arthur A. Cohen
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New York, United States of America
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1962
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The connection between Creation and the Flood is a very real one in biblical theology, especially in the biblical interpretation of human history. Reference has already been made to…
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Nahum M. Sarna
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Newton, United States of America
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1966