(Continuation of my post two weeks ago.) It's a challenge--to make Rabbi Jonathan Eibeschuetz's Bible, Rabbi Jonathan Eibeschuetz's God, intelligible and even relevant to a secular world where God as an active force is hardly detectable. Where "nobody ever reads the Bible"--as a speaker in a … [Read more...]
Journal of an Eibeschuetz Translator – The Kabbalist and the Genocide (Part 2)
Once upon a time, according to the Jewish mystics known as Kabbalists, there existed a system of worlds--shall we call it a universe?--very much like our own, yet not the one we know today. One day--but back then there were no "days," no time as we know it, because sun and moon and everything … [Read more...]
Journal of an Eibeschuetz Translator – The Kabbalist and the Genocide (Part 1)
"And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people" (Numbers 31:1-2). I don't want to write this blog post. I think I'm probably going to hate it once it's written. But at a panel at a science-fiction … [Read more...]
The Messiah and the Whirlwind – A Nativity in August
August seems an odd time for a story about an infant Messiah born in Bethlehem. But the recent occurrence of Tisha be'Av--literally, "the Ninth of the month Av" in the Jewish calendar, which fell on August 1 this year--brought the story to mind. It's a good story, although in some respects a bit … [Read more...]
Sifra di-Tzeniuta – “The Book of Concealment”
"The Book of Concealment. The book that weighs in the balance. For until there was the balance, they did not look at one another face to face, and the Ancient Kings died and their ornaments could not be found and the earth ceased to be." That's how I understand the opening words of the short, … [Read more...]
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