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The problem is that the rabbis he respects were almost all murdered.

It took faith to stay Jewish in the Hellenistic age,

“How many animals of each kind did Moses take into the ark?”

“The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions.” —Claude Lévi-Strauss

Attempting to prove the truth of the canonical Jewish historical narrative from outside Jewish practice is nothing but a fool’s errand. In Judaism, belief can only be the residue of practice.

subcommunities that prove to be poorly adapted, usually because the barriers between them and non-halakhic cultures are too low, simply cease to exist,

Gott fun Avraham

The job of the scientist, like the modern historian, is to analyze competing theories, and on the basis of evidence to…

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