Making Space The call to Abraham, with which Lech Lecha begins, seems to come from nowhere: “Leave your land, your birthplace, and your father’s house, and go to a land which I will show you.” Nothing has prepared us for this radical departure. We have not had a description of Abraham as we had in […]
True Morality Is there such a thing as an objective basis of morality? For some time, in secular circles, the idea has seemed absurd. Morality is what we choose it to be. We are free to do what we like so long as we don’t harm others. Moral judgments are not truths but choices. There […]
A Living Book It is the most famous, majestic and influential opening of any book in literature, “In the beginning, G-d created the heavens and the earth.” What is surpassingly strange is the way Rashi – most beloved of all Jewish commentators – begins his commentary: Rabbi Isaac said the Torah should have begun with the verse, […]
