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WE have Sinned: Self and Settlers and Violence (opens the original)
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In one of his Yamim Hanora’im derashot, Rav Shagar argues that beneath the surface-level details of the confessions we say on Yom Kippur lies a transformative ritual performance: saying “we.” Saying each line in the first-person plural—we are guilty; we have betrayed; we have stolen—we rehearse what it would be like to really see ourselves as part of a group. We imagine ourselves not as isolated individuals but as parts of something larger than ourselves. In doing so, he claims, we actually chan
Orthodox Liberalism: Three Jewish Theologies of Democracy (opens the original)
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I am very excited to announce my new 3-part online course for Drisha:<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1456" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4-38!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazo
The Psychoanalytic/Therapeutic Subject of the Mikdash – The Word and the Sacrifice (opens the original)
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Note: This post follows from the last two, which can be found here:and here:I’ve written about Yishai Mevorach’s The Word and the Sacrifice in a few posts <a href="https://levimorrow.sub
The Liberal-Ethical Subject (of the Mikdash) – The God Who Hates Lies (opens the original)
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This post builds on the previous one. I recommend checking it out before proceeding if you haven’t already:Meir Kraus, the author of Levo El Hakodesh, is a fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute research center in Jerusalem, and both leadership and colleagues from the institute are thanked in the acknowledgments. The book is, in some ways, an archetypically-Hartman book. Here, I want to compare it to one of the later works of the Hartman Institute’s founder, R. Dr. David Hartman.<div class="capt
The Split Subject of the Beit Hamikdash (Temple) – Levo El Hakodesh (opens the original)
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Tisha B’av this year prompted me to go through Meir Kraus’s Levo El Hakodesh (English title: Judaism Without The Temple), a book which analyzes contemporary theologies of the Beit Hamikdash (the Temple) in Israeli society and proposes a need to decenter the Mikdash within Jewish theology. There’s something very specifically Israeli about the book, which responds to the Temple Mount Activism movement, to the rising trend of religious Israelis going up on Har Habayit, and to theol
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