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It's the side-by-side culture of the Talmud I like so much. 'On the one hand' and 'on the other hand' is frustrating for people seeking absolute faith, but for me it gives religion an ambidextrous quality that suits my temperament.
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― The Talmud and the Internet: A Journey between Worlds
― The Talmud and the Internet: A Journey between Worlds
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And yet I feel an uncanny kinship to Moses as the Rabbis imagine him in that story, as I suppose that the Rabbis intended I should. Theirs was a system that made a virtue of ambivalence and built uncertainty into bedrock assertions of faith. No wonder fundamentalists and fascists have hated it so. And why I feel drawn towards it even now and, in the face of everything, find myself oddly determined to carry my own flawed version away from the slope of Sinai where, according to tradition, my soul
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― The Talmud and the Internet: A Journey between Worlds
― The Talmud and the Internet: A Journey between Worlds
My book, The Talmud: A Biography will be published in February. It's a classic of world literatu…more
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