Sublime

Selon Yoël Bainish, qui est pour cette période de la vie du Roi le témoin le plus précis et le plus constant, Reb Klimrod et surtout Lazarus comptaient alors parmi les terroristes les plus recherchés par les Britanniques en Palestine.

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.”

Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik (1903–1993) boldly insists that in this amazing encounter, Moses serves as a paradigm for what is true of every human being: to be created in the image of God is to be assigned a specific task by God.

Kamtza and Bar Kamtza are like matter and antimatter, thesis and synthesis, light and shadow. To hate one and love the other is to lose sight of the essential similarity between the two, and thereby to engage in a useless and all-consuming kind of violence. The War of Gog and Magog, and all struggles for total annihilation, emerge from the clash of

halakha lies on a continuum between language and law.

“All Israelites are responsible for one another” (Shevuot 39a).