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Zalmen Gradowski.
Dara Horn • People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
I was allowing myself—my I—to be read by the text.
Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg • Moses: A Human Life (Jewish Lives)
Unable to comprehend their own history, they cannot truly hear God’s message or speak their own redemption.
Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg • Moses: A Human Life (Jewish Lives)
Chava Rosenfarb’s The Tree of Life,
Dara Horn • People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
Buber’s articulation of the paradox of prophecy comes to mind: “It is laid upon the stammering to bring the voice of Heaven to Earth?”
Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg • Moses: A Human Life (Jewish Lives)
She acted out of chessed, a loving kindness that saw not only the bleak reality but the possibilities of redemption that may still break through the harsh surface of an unredeemed world.
Irving Greenberg • The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays
Not knowing underlies all of Pharaoh’s persecution policies.
Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg • Moses: A Human Life (Jewish Lives)
These words emerge “from out of the Burning Bush,” from the thorny complexity of human pain.