Judaism
From Emmanuel Levinas to Jonathan Sacks.
Repentance as a communal pursuit.
“When you see the wonders of how bees operate, it makes you feel good about God.”
A lesson from loss.
“It is not in heaven.”
His fantasies contained only a few Jewish themes.
Yedaya ha-Penini’s Book of the Orchard.
The Jewish atomic scientist believed physics “transcended religion,” but didn’t replace it.
Competing ideas about the nature of Jewish faith.
For the Torah, humanity itself is a source of dignity.
Earlier this month, the man who killed eleven Jews in Pittsburgh in 2018 was sentenced to death. A rabbi and ethicist joins us to think about Jewish views of capital punishment.
Naftali Zvi Yehudah Berlin and Ḥayyim Soloveitchik.
Science, medicine, printing, and mysticism.
“Ten measures of beauty were given to the world; nine were taken by Jerusalem.”