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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Rabbi Irving “Yitz” Greenberg, all human beings are endowed with three “intrinsic dignities”: infinite worth, equality, and uniqueness.10
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
for Jewish ethics, the path to universal love is through partiality rather than around it.
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
Maimonides lays out: learn the truth from whoever says it.37
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
The sixth Rebbe deduced from this principle that Israel ben Eliezer (1698–1760), the Ba‘al Shem Ṭov, “master of a good name,” generally abbreviated as the Beshṭ, should be considered the “Moses of Ḥasidism” and Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the “Moses of Ḥabad.”
Elliot R. Wolfson • Open Secret: Postmessianic Messianism and the Mystical Revision of Menaḥem Mendel Schneerson
On Marc Ellis, Exile and the Prophetic (or Welcome to the New Diaspora Rabbi Rosen!)
Rabbi Brant Rosenrabbibrant.com
integrity of the system is more important than the truth of one case.