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Category Archives: Torah
The Man Who Measured the Unspoken
Princeton, the kosher dining hall, the academic year 1979-80. Moshe Koppel (b. 1956) had finished a doctorate in mathematics at NYU's Courant Institute a few months earlier, under Martin Davis (1928-2023), and had come down to the Institute for Advanced … Continue reading
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If Mearsheimer Is Right
In his 2018 book, The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities, John J. Mearsheimer wrote: My view is that we are profoundly social beings from the start to the finish of our lives and that individualism is of secondary … Continue reading
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Live Questions in Torah
Every serious dispute in Torah now sits inside one question. What can divine command mean after historical criticism, moral autonomy, Jewish sovereignty, feminism, mass secularization, denominational collapse, and the discovery that every supposedly neutral reading comes from a community with … Continue reading
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Learning for its Own Sake
A shadchan calls a rosh yeshiva about a bochur. She asks the one question the call exists to ask. What is he like in learning. The rosh yeshiva answers in the code everyone reads. He is a masmid. He has … Continue reading
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Taking Things On Faith
A secular Jewish friend emails me: I have known for several years that scholars believe the enslavement of Jews by the Egyptians, and the exodus and the wandering for forty years never happened. At that time I remember Prager among … Continue reading
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Decoding Dennis Prager
Dennis Prager Biography Condensed My Dennis Prager Story AI Summary My Dennis Prager Journey At my lowest, Dennis Prager’s presentation of ethical monotheism gave me a reason to live. When I was confined to bed by Chronic Fatigue Syndrome between … Continue reading
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Out-Groups
In his commentary on the Book of Genesis, Dennis Prager notes: * Every nation has a derogatory way of referring to other nations, and the ancient Israelites were no exception: To them, the term “uncircumcised” signified a man who was … Continue reading
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This Week’s Torah Portion Is Devarim (Deuteronomy 1-3:22)
* Deuteronomy has a completely different literary style than the previous four books. Even traditional commentators will say these are Moshe’s words not God’s (though they will say they are Moshe’s words inspired by God, but not dictated by God … Continue reading
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This Week’s Torah Portion – Parashas Matot, Masei (Numbers 30-36)
Listen here. Parasha Matot is Numbers 30:2–32:42, and Masei is Num. 33-36. * Num. 30:2-17 assumes that all adult women are married. By giving the husband 24 hours to nullify the wife’s vow, it assures him that he is head … Continue reading
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