Jewish Thought
He understood his adopted country’s potential, and its vulnerabilities.
A lost work by Abraham Isaac Kook.
No kabbalist, but someone who yearned for mystical union with the Divine.
A noted philosopher’s critique of one of liberalism’s most treasured theories clears room for a conception of politics informed by Judaism.
An 18th-century rabbi and theologian from a forgotten Jewish sect.
“We look forward to hearing your paper on why the gods must be fed the blood of sacrificial victims.”
Why didn’t Moses receive the Torah at the bottom of the mountain?
A controversial figure.
Divine because of Who gave it, or divine because of what it is?
With a fresh take on Moses Mendelssohn.
From Hermann Cohen to Joseph B. Soloveitchik.
Joseph B. Soloveitchik’s answer.
A participatory theory of revelation.
For this 14th-century rabbi, the Torah’s laws were only quasi-divine.