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During the thousands of years of its history, Judaism has learned and experienced a good deal. In its people the commanding urge to think further, to struggle with ideas, has…
I recognize no eternal verities save those which not only can be comprehended by the human intellect but can also be demonstrated and confirmed by man’s faculties. It is, however, a misconception of…
There are facts of such an overwhelming power that even the most stubborn opinion must yield to them. Such a fact is the origin of Judaism in the midst of rude surroundings, like a vigorous…
This book consists of a descriptive account and twenty stories. The descriptive account speaks of the life of the Hasidim, a Jewish sect of eastern Europe which arose around the middle of…
The Jewish people did not begin to philosophize because of an irresistible urge to do so. They received philosophy from outside sources, and the history of Jewish philosophy is a history of the…
And Joshua said unto all Israel: “Draw near,” etc.—Joshua 3:9.
In Midrash Genesis Rabbah, section 5 (Gen. Rabbah 5:7), it is stated: “Rav Huna said: ‘He stood them up between the two staves of the…
§181. In contradistinction to ritual holiness we have what has been called ethical holiness. The former is merely symbolic of an order of existence higher…
Altona, 24 Ab 5603
Chief Rabbi!
Messrs. Adler and Fuld, members of your congregation, asked for my opinion, from the Jewish-religious perspective…
What is the teaching of kabbalah and Hasidism if not expansion (Torat ha-harḥavah)? The tangible world should expand, the given worlds should increase, and this Torah that is written and passed down…
If in what follows the nature of language is considered on the basis of the first chapter of Genesis, the object is neither biblical interpretation nor subjection of the Bible to objective…