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GIVEN THE CENTRALITY OF the sacrificial cult and priestly leadership to Israelite religion, the destruction of the Temple, and with it the sacrificial rite and the power of the priests, might well have meant the end of Israelite life. With sociological and religious genius, however, the Israelites’ leaders begged their followers…
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Daniel Gordis • Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
Those engaged in a life of study know that the consummate orientation to the Jewish tradition is one in which you will never know enough.
Rabbi Elie Kaunfer • Empowered Judaism: What Independent Minyanim Can Teach Us about Building Vibrant Jewish Communities
The prohibition on embarrassing another is one of Judaism’s cardinal sins, they say, and one should sooner die than transgress
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
death was not a deterrent but a holy aim.
Noa Tishby • Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
“How many animals of each kind did Moses take into the ark?”
Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow
“What the gentiles say is less important than what the Jews do,”
Tom Segev • A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion
finally, a community that believes—but I mean really, really believes—that Torah has a contribution to make to the redemption of the world, and that ultimately the world will not be redeemed without Torah.
Rabbi Elie Kaunfer • Empowered Judaism: What Independent Minyanim Can Teach Us about Building Vibrant Jewish Communities
Rabbi Shlomo Wolbe (d. 2005)
David Jaffe • Changing the World from the Inside Out: A Jewish Approach to Personal and Social Change
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