Not in the Heavens: novembro 2017

30 de novembro de 2017

Guerra

"Just Following Orders: Shaping Minds & Morals In Battle" (with Moshe Halbertal)

Isaac

"Presentation of Jacob to Isaac" Giordano, Luca - el Fa presto

29 de novembro de 2017

According to the pain is the reward.

Mishnah, Avot 5:23

Moisés

"Moses and the Messengers from Canaan", Giovanni Lanfranco (1624)

I. L. Peretz

"Hope & Fear in I. L. Peretz", Ruth Wisse (1988)

28 de novembro de 2017

Sinagoga del Tránsito de Toledo

Dibujo del siglo XVIII de la Sinagoga original

Daniel Boyarin

"Two Powers in Heaven and Early Jewish Monotheism"

27 de novembro de 2017

Henry Kissinger

In Conversation with Charlie Rose (2015)

Hassidismo

"Legends of Hassidism", Elie Wiesel (1/2)

Legends of Hassidism", Elie Wiesel (2/2)

26 de novembro de 2017

Sansão

"Samson Tells a Riddle at his Feast", Rembrandt (1638)

Manuscritos do Mar Morto

"Messiahs & the End of Days in the Dead Sea Scrolls", Lawrence H. Schiffman

23 de novembro de 2017

Maimónides

"Maimonides from Mysticism to Scepticism", Moshe Idel

Varsóvia

Businesses on ul. Nalewki in the Jewish Quarter, Warsaw (1930s)

22 de novembro de 2017

Moisés

Depiction of the finding of Moses in the Nile by Pharaoh’s daughter,

Hispano-Moresque Haggadah, Spain (1275-1324)

Emancipação

"The Contest over the Emancipation of European Jewry", Jonathan Israel

21 de novembro de 2017

Esaú

"Esau Sells his Birthright to Jacob", Rembrandt (c. 1649)

Trump

Alan Dershowitz with Chris Cuomo on President Trump and the state of civil discourse

20 de novembro de 2017

Anti-semitismo

“Anti-Semitism and Why It Matters", Ruth Wisse

19 de novembro de 2017

Vida

A swan swims through fog near Tubingen, Germany

Manuscritos do Mar Morto

"Scripture, Law & The Life of the Dead Sea Scrolls", Lawrence H. Schiffman

18 de novembro de 2017

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein at Princeton luncheon, Princeton, New Jersey (1953)

Yamim Noraim

"Understanding Prayer: The Soul's Language" (10/10)

"Sometimes I feel so low-down and disgusted
Can’t help but wonder what’s happenin’ to my companions
Are they lost or are they found
Have they counted the cost it’ll take to bring down
All their earthly principles they’re gonna have to abandon?
There’s a slow, slow train comin’ up around the bend

I had a woman down in Alabama
She was a backwoods girl, but she sure was realistic
She said, “Boy, without a doubt
Have to quit your mess and straighten out
You could die down here, be just another accident statistic”
There’s a slow, slow train comin’ up around the bend

All that foreign oil controlling American soil
Look around you, it’s just bound to make you embarrassed
Sheiks walkin’ around like kings
Wearing fancy jewels and nose rings
Deciding America’s future from Amsterdam and to Paris
And there’s a slow, slow train comin’ up around the bend

Man’s ego is inflated, his laws are outdated, they don’t apply no more
You can’t rely no more to be standin’ around waitin'
In the home of the brave
Jefferson turnin’ over in his grave
Fools glorifying themselves, trying to manipulate Satan
And there’s a slow, slow train comin’ up around the bend

Big-time negotiators, false healers and woman haters
Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition
But the enemy I see
Wears a cloak of decency
All nonbelievers and men stealers talkin’ in the name of religion
And there’s a slow, slow train comin’ up around the bend

People starving and thirsting, grain elevators are bursting
Oh, you know it costs more to store the food than it do to give it
They say lose your inhibitions
Follow your own ambitions
They talk about a life of brotherly love show me someone who knows how to live it
There’s a slow, slow train comin’ up around the bend

Well, my baby went to Illinois with some bad-talkin’ boy she could destroy
A real suicide case, but there was nothin’ I could do to stop it
I don’t care about economy
I don’t care about astronomy
But it sure do bother me to see my loved ones turning into puppets
There’s a slow, slow train comin’ up around the bend"