Passover is the holiday of the transparency of God’s providence, Purim the holiday of not knowing. We are sometimes guilty of what the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan calls ‘fixating on a cause,’closing off questions about the world or ourselves by seeing things from only one perspective. So we limit God’s power and providence by assuming [...]
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1. Isn’t your book’s title Open Minded Torah a paradox? How can a traditionally religious Jew be open-minded? Isn’t there some contradiction here? Open Minded Torah is not the oxymoron that many on both the right and left might assume, but instead offers a voice in which open-mindedness and commitment can go together. OMT begins [...]
