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this codified version doesn’t capture what’s going on in Shimen’s mind;

Maimonides lays out: learn the truth from whoever says it.37

Many Jewish thinkers see judging others favorably as key to the fulfillment of all interpersonal obligations more broadly.

The rabbis demystified holiness; they democratized it, making it less a function of spiritual genius than of personal self-discipline.

reading and every new interpretation. The rabbinic understanding of the dynamic of Oral Torah—ever growing and always the key to fixing the meaning of Written Torah for each particular time and place—is profoundly compatible with a Process understanding and is strongly rooted in the metaphysics that Process articulates.

Yeshivat Hadar cannot be the only solution to the lack of Jewish empowerment education available to American Jews in the twenty-first century. In fact, if Yeshivat Hadar remains the only new institution in this field in the next five years, we will have failed to achieve our broader vision. American Judaism will thrive when it offers the most

I like that the language of Torah is vague enough, capacious enough, pregnant enough as to offer us two readings which contradict each other in every conceivable way, and are nevertheless both technically correct. For what is this Torah supposed to be, if not infinite?