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The giving of the Ten Commandments was an earth-shattering, never-before-experienced event. God revealed Godself directly to the entire Israelite people. It was the most profound Divine-human encounter to have ever occurred, never again to be repeated in world history. But while the event itself was never repeated, the telling of that event most definitely was.
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Reviewing: “The Zionist Ideas” by Gil Troy. Jewish Publication Society. 2018. English. Paperback. 608 pages. ISBN-13: 978-0827612556.
One of the most interesting books I ever read was “The Zionist Idea” by Arthur Hertzberg, published in 1959. It was a collection of excerpts from the writings of Jewish thinkers in the pre-Zionism stage and in the early years of the Jewish state. It began with excerpts from the precursors such as R. Zvi Hirsch Kalischer and Moses Hess. The book then moved on to Russia in the 1870s and 1880s with excerpts from Peretz Smolenskin, Eliezer Ben-Yehudah, Moses Lieb Lilienblum, and Leo Pinsker. Then it had excerpts from Herzl and Max Nordau (the period of the early Zionist Congresses). Then it continued with many others such as: Ahad Ha-Am, Aaron David Gordon, Rabbi Samuel Mohilever, Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, Judah Magnes, Louis Brandeis, Rabbi Meir Bar-Ilan, Vladmir Jabotinsky, Chaim Weizmann and David Ben Gurion. The excerpts were wisely chosen and
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More as a result of happenstance and certainly through no merit of my own, I’ve had the privilege over the years of interacting, and in some cases establishing relationships, with prominent leaders of the Orthodox community. For example, as a teenager I attended a youth group led by R. Emanuel Rackman, which set the stage for my lifetime of learning from him. (Becoming
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