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Judaism without generosity is a hollow shell.
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
Unmasking Biblical Faiths: The Marginal Relevance of the Bible for Contemporary Religious Faith
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Elijah’s power is limited, because traditionally a prophet cannot invoke his own authority to establish the halakhah:
Daniel C. Matt • Becoming Elijah: Prophet of Transformation (Jewish Lives)
Rabbi Saadia Gaon teaches that “the Jews are a people by virtue of Torah.”
Rabbi Bradley Shavit DHL Artson • God of Becoming and Relationship: The Dynamic Nature of Process Theology
exasperated by Jewish patience in waiting for an ever-deferred Messiah, and they are incensed by the Jews’ implicit insistence on the possibility of reconciling particularist traditions and loyalties with fairness to others.
Moshe Koppel • Judaism Straight Up: Why Real Religion Endures
In 539 the Babylonian Empire fell to…
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Marc Zvi Brettler PhD • How to Read the Bible
There’s an old saying in biblical studies (I first heard it from Ben Witherington III) that a text without a context is just a pretext for making it say anything one wants.
Amy-Jill Levine • Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi
the holy days of Purim, Hanukkah, and Tisha B’Av.
Irving Greenberg • The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays
Torah is relational. We bring who we are to the text and the text offers back something of meaning to us.