Facing Reality: Lessons from Jeremiah, the Destruction of the Second Temple, and Bar Kochba’s Rebellion

Yehoshafat Harkabi

1981

Is the Jewish existence so hollow and frail that it took hundreds of thousands of human victims in order to consolidate it, as the claim that the Bar Kochba rebellion ensured our continuity would seem to suggest? The mind recoils from this description of Jewish existence as a Moloch requiring human sacrifice. Judaism has its own positive selfhood…

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Yehoshafat Harkabi

1921–1994

Born in Haifa, Yehoshafat Harkabi was a researcher of international relations. He served in the British army during World War II, fought in the 1948 War, was head of military intelligence for the IDF, and taught at the Hebrew University. At the end of his military career, he was appointed head of strategic research at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a strategy adviser to defense minister Shimon Peres. Harkabi was awarded the Israel Prize in 1993.

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