Jonah of Girona.

“No one achieves happiness or bliss when paying his taxes.”

“I love the Lord for He hears my voice.”

David Nieto.

Leo Strauss, Benedict Spinoza, and Orthodoxy.

“Shimshon, did you see My Alps?”

The Soul of the Mishnah.

“If we had no sense of disgust, . . . we would also have no sense of the sacred.”

The exiles from Judah clung to the conviction that it was their own God who had brought humanity into being.

The Maccabees fought with heroic strength against the exaltation of heroic strength.

The taming of the shrewd.

Jewish theology and artificial intelligence.

A medieval rabbi with “a love of language, dark humor, penchant for astrology, personal bitterness, and dour personality.”

An Orthodox defense of Jonathan Sacks’s pluralism.