Showing Results 51 - 60 of 98
Restricted
Text
With the holy poem
clenched between my teeth,
I set forth alone
from that wolf-cave, my home,
to roam
street after street
like a wolf
with his solitary bone.
There is prey enough in the street
to…
Contributor:
H. Leivick
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1922
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Oh my God, my God,
Mighty One of my existence,
have mercy on Your lost son
who has wandered from the ancestral path
and, exiled to cold and unfamiliar climes,
sought to be close to You,
but has not…
Contributor:
Hillel Bavli
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1923
Categories:
Restricted
Text
What is a Jew? Who is a Jew? After this catastrophe, what is a Jew’s relation to the Jewish past? We resume our original question as we turn from one rupture in post-Holocaust Jewish existence—of the…
Contributor:
Emil L. Fackenheim
Places:
Toronto, Canada
Date:
1982
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
The situation of the Jewish woman might well be compared to the situation of the Jew in non-Jewish culture. The Gentile projection of the Jew as Other—the stranger, the demon, the human not-quite…
Contributor:
Judith Plaskow
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1983
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Why does a book on Jewish philosophy begin with a discussion of revelation? First, because it is revelation that creates Judaism as a religion. […] Without God’s…
Contributor:
Neil Gillman
Places:
Philadelphia, United States of America
Date:
1990
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
When a human being builds a palace, he does not build it according to his own wisdom, but according to the wisdom of a craftsman. And the craftsman does not build according to his own wisdom, rather…
Contributor:
Nosson Scherman
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1993
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Reform Judaism is a phenomenon of man’s restless spirit. At its best it is a dynamic faith—and its very dynamism…
Contributor:
W. Gunther Plaut
Places:
Toronto, Canada
Date:
1963
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
There is an old talmudic saying: “A Jew who has sinned still remains a Jew.” My own thinking is, of course, beyond the idea of “sin” or “no sin”; but this saying has brought to my mind a memory from…
Contributor:
Isaac Deutscher
Places:
Date:
1958
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
[ . . . ] Immanuel Kant once wrote: “The true [moral] service of God is . . . invisible, i.e., it is the service of the heart, in spirit and in truth, and it may consist . . . only of intention.” Thi…
Contributor:
Eliezer Berkovits
Places:
Chicago, United States of America
Date:
1959
Categories:
Restricted
Text
The fact that at a crossroads in Jewish history two “fathers of the world” met, men who were to become trailblazers in religious philosophy, is of major importance. The…
Contributor:
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1962