THE SACRED AND THE ORDINARY
Why was the instruction to “be holy” deliberately given to the entire Jewish nation? Why do the directives that follow this instruction relate to the most ordinary aspects of civil and religious life? Rabbi Dunner shares some wonderful ideas from his grandfather’s sefer, Mikdash Halevi, on the opening verses of Parshat Kedoshim.
(For SoundCloud audio, scroll down) Mark Twain once said, “All generalizations are false, including this one.” Well, I wonder what Twain would have made of Raphael Patai’s 1973 book, The... Read More