Sublime

The Rabbis’ fundamental theological breakthrough was a “secularization” insight. God was becoming less visible, more hidden. The Destruction was a signal that manifest divine activity was being curtailed. God would not stop the Romans or save the Temple (even though God had destroyed the Egyptians at the Red Sea). Still the covenant was not being

The other great cluster of commands—known as edot, or “testimonies”—have to do with our identity as part of a people and its story. So

Danny, por su parte, buscaba la objetividad. La escuela de pensamiento psicológico que más le fascinaba era la psicología de la Gestalt.[11] Iniciada por judíos alemanes —se originó en Berlín a principios del siglo XX—, pretendía explorar a través de la ciencia los misterios de la mente humana.

To a certain extent, therefore, mysticism signifies a revival of mythical thought, although the difference must not be overlooked between the unity which is there before there is duality, and the unity that has to be won back in a new upsurge of the religious consciousness.

Thus the exodus from Egypt, the fundamental event of our history, cannot, according to the mystic, have come to pass once only and in one place; it must correspond to an event which takes place in ourselves, an exodus from an inner Egypt in which we all are slaves.

Judaism without generosity is a hollow shell.

The compiler of the Yalkut Shim’oni collected in the thirteenth century the old Aggadahs which, as preserved by the Midrashic literature, accompanied the biblical text. In the Yalkut Reubeni, on the other hand, we have a collection of the Aggadic output of the Kabbalists during five centuries.

“To speak as a Jew is to quote … [and] to quote is to see the present through the prism of tradition.”