Sublime

Exploring this issue really involves asking two questions: (1) Why were all of these sources retained, rather than just retaining the latest or most authoritative one? (2) Why were they combined in this odd way, rather than being left as complete documents that would be read side by side, much like the model of the four…

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Separated from the Jewish people before the development of the Talmud, the Beta Israel have preserved the biblical commandments and traditions. Seeing them in action makes one realize that different levels of meaning have unfolded in history.

Othman was the director of the Syrian Atomic Energy Commission.

That group had paid a substantial amount of money so that their members could visit and inspect the department that dealt with ground-to-air missiles. Somehow Epstein’s group was mistaken for the paying group, so they received detailed information concerning the newly developed rockets. As a result, the Angel and the Lightning (“Bazak” in Hebrew) r

Yet Herzl’s vision of a sovereign state had meaning, increasing numbers of Israelis believed, only if those new Jews rooted themselves and their humanity in the tradition they had inherited. Herzl without Ahad Ha’am was merely political sovereignty—and that, Israelis began to sense, was simply not enough. Theodor Herzl. Ahad Ha’am. Two radically di

In the first instance, the dispersion of Moses in every generation (itpashṭuta de-moshe be-khol dara we-dara) signifies the capability of every Jew to expand his or her consciousness (da‘at) to the point of being assimilated within the divine and to draw down the infinite light into the world.42 However, the righteous sages, the “eyes of the congre