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Reform Judaism is a phenomenon of man’s restless spirit. At its best it is a dynamic faith—and its very dynamism…
Nathan of Gaza (also known as Nathan Benjamin ben Elisha Ḥayim ha-Levi Ashkenazi) was born in Jerusalem and moved to Gaza in around 1663. The son of a respected religious scholar, he became a scholar…
The hand of the Lord came upon me. He took me out by the spirit of the Lord and set me down in the valley. It was full of bones. He led me all around them; there were very many of them spread over…
This photograph of two Jews reduces them to an abstraction, a single black shape, in a composition that includes the round shapes of manhole covers, the curving black lines of a street grating, and…
I hope in the Lord at all times,
And to the fearsome, awful One,
I cry: Grant redemption, Thou
Who dost not slumber, dost not sleep.
My soul, all weary and exhausted,
Longs and yearns,
For it…
Hear my cry, O Lord,Treat Zion well, with favor, speedily.Have mercy, fight my battle for me,For they have turned Jerusalem into ruins.Long have I inhabited a foreign land,Afflicted with bloody…
Prosecutor’s evidence: In Herrera on the twenty-first of May in the year 1500, before the lord inquisitors in the general inquisition.
Witness: Inés, daughter of Juan Esteban, residing in the town of…
Prophecy of Egypt: The Lord rides a light cloud and will come to Egypt, and Idols of Egypt will move before him, and the heart of Egypt shall melt away in him.
Upon a light cloud the Lord…
Sunday, 1st Tammuz, 5426
This is the secret of the teaching of the sages: “When the Holy One, blessed be He, created the world with the attribute of justice, and the world could not subsist—and so too with the attribute of…