The Latest From Mark
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Come Now, Let Us Reason Together: the Movie
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. If so, you should really dig this video, which I believe provides a compelling one-minute summary of my book. Check it out! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rtxV9D7AlB8qNKSKH8tY8-OlQUH-UK8F/view
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Why Does the Torah Anthropomorphise God?
Anyone who has read the Torah knows that it often describes God in human terms. Thus, it refers to God as “angry” “remembering,” or “stretching out his arm.” In most of these cases I believe it is due to the inherent inability of finite human beings to accurate describe the thoughts and actions of an
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Appearance on Prof. Alon Ben-Meir’s Podcast, “On the Issues.”
Rabbinic Judaism was liberal, in the older sense, at its core. It was blown off course in an illiberal direction during the Geonic era. The Jewish Enlightenment gave birth to liberal movements, but the isolated Haredi communities remained oppressive and authoritarian. This has had profound, negative repercussions for Israeli culture and politics.