"The Spirit He Breathed In Man Is Free"– The Theodicy of Maimonides and Kipling
Prof. Menachem Kellner writes: Rambam also made it clear that (just as traffic accidents don’t just “happen,” but are caused, so) most of the evil from which we suffer is the result of human stupidity...
View ArticleIdeological Certainty and Its Discontents: In Praise Of Epistemic Humility
In response to a question about the propriety of protesting the singing of שיר המעלות to “the [well-]known tune of the [Israeli] National Anthem”, Rav Avraham Weinfeld responds that while the practice...
View ArticleThere Is That Is Destroyed Unjustly
For S.B., who is blameless and has not yet tasted sin. A provocative Talmudic agadah asserts that some deaths are unjust, citing as an example the bizarre tale of a minion of the Angel of Death whose...
View Article"The Spirit He Breathed In Man Is Free"– The Theodicy of Maimonides and Kipling
Prof. Menachem Kellner writes: Rambam also made it clear that (just as traffic accidents don’t just “happen,” but are caused, so) most of the evil from which we suffer is the result of human stupidity...
View ArticleIdeological Certainty and Its Discontents: In Praise Of Epistemic Humility
In response to a question about the propriety of protesting the singing of שיר המעלות to “the [well-]known tune of the [Israeli] National Anthem”, Rav Avraham Weinfeld responds that while the practice...
View ArticleThere Is That Is Destroyed Unjustly
For S.B., who is blameless and has not yet tasted sin. A provocative Talmudic agadah asserts that some deaths are unjust, citing as an example the bizarre tale of a minion of the Angel of Death whose...
View ArticleJustice Denied Revisited
Around this time last year, we discussed the controversy over the theological correctness of the phrase “ולוקח נפשות במשפט” added to ברכת המזון in a house of mourning, in light of the Biblical phrase...
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