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Strauss, Spinoza & Sinai: Orthodox Judaism and Modern Questions of Faith

Strauss, Spinoza & Sinai: Orthodox Judaism and Modern Questions of Faith

Editors: Jeffrey Bloom, Alec Goldstein, Gil Student More than three centuries after Baruch Spinoza’s excommunication from the Jewish community of Amsterdam, his legacy remains contentious. Born in 1632, Spinoza is one of the most important thinkers of the Enlightenment and arguably the paradigm of the secular Jew, having left Orthodoxy without converting to another faith. One of the most…

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The Revelation at Sinai: What Does “Torah from Heaven” Mean? by Yoram Hazony, Gil Student, Alex Sztuden (Editors)

The Revelation at Sinai: What Does “Torah from Heaven” Mean? by Yoram Hazony, Gil Student, Alex Sztuden (Editors)

The Bible contains commands and narratives that are the foundations of Jewish tradition and Western Civilization. Both the narratives and the law constitute what Jewish tradition calls Torah from heaven, God’s communication to mankind, which reaches its greatest form in God’s revelation of the Torah to Moses at Sinai. What is so important about God’s revelation to Moses at Sinai? How are we to…

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