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These are the words of the covenant as a statute for Jacob, as an everlasting covenant for Israel; the Almighty spoke but once—and He will never alter His law—through the Torah and the ruling which…
How, I ask you, could we have continued to be a nation until the present, and how could we have been able to walk such a great distance along the path of history without losing our unity or having our…
Abraham Menaḥem Kohen Porto to the prince and magnate, chieftain and nobleman, our teacher R. Menaḥem Azariah de Fano—may his Rock and Redeemer preserve him—greetings to his glorious excellency!
Beh…
The Book of Leviticus is not terribly popular among American Jews of my acquaintance. […] Leviticus seems so repetitive, so anachronistic. […] [The] book is in many…
It is not the plan of this essay to discuss the millennium-old problem of faith and reason. I want instead to focus attention on a human-life situation in which the man of faith as an individual…
Responding to the high rates of intermarriage and concerns about eroding Jewish life, the organized Jewish community has initiated a drive to ensure the Jewish future in North America. As Jewish…
“God’s writing engraved on the
tablets”—read not harut (engraved)
but herut (freedom).
—Sayings of the Fathers VI, 2
Among all the problems of present-day Jewish life, that of youth’s attitude…
Today, there again exists a serious threat that the differences within the world-wide Jewish community may end in schism.
The foremost reason for the gravity of the situation is the explosion in Jews…
I have been critical of the modern notions of the solitary self and self-validating universalism in the hope of permitting the consciousness of our particularity to…