[This was originally accidentally post ed in May 2017. It caught my attention when a reader recently clicked it, so I reviewed it since I thought I had trashed it and wondered how it got posted without my noticing it. After reviewing, I realized that I had completely left out the title and author […]
[This was originally accidentally post ed in May 2017. It caught my attention when a reader recently clicked it, so I reviewed it since I thought I had trashed it and wondered how it got posted without my noticing it. After reviewing, I realized that I had completely left out the title and author […]
Read more[First posted 2012; one of 40 essays written by Abraham Joshua Heschel (AJH) circa 1953, in a collection edited by his daughter Susannah Heschel, titled: Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity; another excellent MUST READ/MUST OWN for serious students of the “Bible”. What AJH calls “the Bible” is only the TNK, the Hebrew Scriptures, not the Christian Bible, […]
Read more[First posted December 9, 2014: Continuing the discussion on world religions, specifically monotheisms that trace their roots to Abrahamic faith, this is from chapter 6 of MUST READ/MUST OWN Who are the REAL Chosen People? – by Reuven Firestone. The chapter’s title: Chosenness and Covenant in Rabbinic Literature. Reformatted and highlighted for this post.—Admin1] The claim for […]
Read more[The author of Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, known as “Koheles (Koheleth), son of David, king in Jerusalem” — presumed to be the wise Solomon — writes about the reality as well as the enigma of life on earth: “Everything has its season, and there is a time for everything under the heaven: A time to […]
Read more[Please read these related posts: MUST READ: The Jewish Mystique by Ernest Van Den Haag MUST READ: The Jewish Mystique by Ernest van den Haag: “Are Jews Smarter Than Other People?” —Admin1] —————— PROLOGUE I propose to write about Jews without hostility or apologetics, and with affection and seriousness, although my temperament […]
Read more[Please read the Introduction to this book if you haven’t done so: MUST READ: The Jewish Mystique by Ernest Van Den Haag —Admin1] ——————- Are Jews Smarter Than Other People? Asked to make a list of the men who have most dominated the thinking of the modern world, many educated people would name Freud, […]
Read more[My Catholic elder brother passed on to me this old book: 4th printing, 2nd edition 1967, hard cover, faded yellowish pages that he had to dry under the sun to make sure no mold and parasites had crept in. I appreciate this gesture from an older brother as much as I appreciate another thoughtful gesture […]
Read more[First posted in 2014. Some of the time, in a post where the same topic has been written about by Sinaites or Jewish websites, we refer the reader to those posts; we are never sure if readers do bother to check them out. So occasionally, we simply feature those posts in a separate article. […]
Read more[First posted in 2012, with this introduction: While this is an interesting read, at the risk of being accused of nitpicking, there are two statements in the author’s introduction that have to be clarified. One is that the Genesis account is from the Christian Bible. Genesis, Bere’shiyt in Hebrew, is from the TORAH, the first section […]
Read more[This brief discussion is from A History of the Jews by Christian historian Paul Johnson, first posted November 8, 2012. The author discusses the difference in dogmatic theology where Christianity had problems formulating while it was relatively absent from rabbinical Judaism. Related post; Must Download: Free ebook on Jewish History A Pattern in History MUST READ: What I […]
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