Gazans Blame Hamas for Their Economic Miseries but Also Anticipate Victory Over Israel
Jobs, not mobs.
November 1, 2018
Two Astronauts and Two Kinds of Jewish Sacred Time
The Sabbath is universal, but the holidays speak to Jewish particularity.
The Sabbath represents God’s decision to rest on the seventh day after creating the world; it therefore exists outside of history, Judaism’s other holy days, for their part, are rooted in the experiences of the Jewish people. Meir Soloveichik compares these two conceptions of sacred time by comparing two astronauts: Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon—the celestial body that determines the Jewish calendar, and that the ancient rabbis compared with the people of Israel—and Ilan Ramon, who famously celebrated Shabbat in outer space. (Video, 21 minutes.)
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Sanctions Alone Won’t Shake Iran’s Dominant Position in the Middle East
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Two Astronauts and Two Kinds of Jewish Sacred Time
The Sabbath is universal, but the holidays speak to Jewish particularity.
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The Hebrew Bible’s conception of evil.