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It is said that when the Torah heaven was able to integrate with earth. Here, I try to further this intermingling in an intellectually honest and open manner, to facilitate the marriage between the sacred and the profane.
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Fighting the War of God (opens the original)
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In the Torah portion of Chukat, the Israelites in their sojourn in the desert was led away from the territories of Edom - the progenitor of Western spiritual identity -, an act of God that Kabbalah interprets as a postponement of a redemptive task that is to take place in a future era - the current one (Luzzatto, 1997; Scholem, 1995).Edom (literally, “red”) or the Idumeans is the nation descended from Jacob’s older brother Esau (Genesis 25:25–30). They occupied what is now southern Jordan, parti
Inoculated Against Judaism: An Anti-Vaxxers Guide to the Hebrew Tradition (opens the original)
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