Word: moseses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Egypt's plans to build villas, hotels and restaurants near the site where Moses met God threaten an ancient monastery, the surrounding environment and, above all, the idea of sanctity itself.
The pilgrim will no longer have to make the 2 1/2-hour climb from the monastery, on the steep steps carved in rock by Byzantine monks who began the task in the 6th century. Unless better angels intervene, there is to be a cable car to whisk the pilgrim up the...
The Lord "descended upon ((Mount Sinai)) in fire," Exodus records. The Lord gave the Law to Moses there: "And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking . . ." Today a visitor sees the massive granite front of Horeb that rises...
I AM often confronted by people who think that Judaism is nothing more than a set of moral values that are the precursors of modern liberalism. They locate the Jewish tradition more in the tradition of Kant and Rawls than in Moses and Hillel. The truth is that modern-day...
So when Jews feel compelled to write in protest of Israel, let their motivation be something other than Judaism the religion (unless you are protesting Israel's operation of public buses on the Sabbath). Let your motivation be utilitarianism, deontological liberalism or even Arab nationalism--for these at least can...