Word: propheteer
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...Daniel Patrick Moynihan was a great minder of Senate traditions and a stirring elected intellectual, perhaps Washington's last. But he sponsored no major legislation, was not the prophet he thinks he was--and never learned the difference between being right and being effective...
...Wiesel embarked upon a spirited discourse upon the strange prophet Hosea, whom God commanded to marry a prostitute. Why would God require such an unseemly thing...
...Wiesel, as he came to the end of his discourse on the minor prophet Hosea, discussed Maimonides' interpretation of the marry-a-harlot theme. Maimonides, the greatest of Judaism's medieval philosophers, explained the entire business (God's commandment to marry a whore, Hosea's predicament) as a vision, a fiction, a fantasy, a daydream. Maybe so. If only this campaign were merely a daydream, an error of the American psyche, correctable by waking...
...happens, I woke in the middle of the night, and it came to me that there may have been, after all, some hilarious parable at work in my evening, some occult line drawn between the prophet Hosea and the coming election. For surely, said I to myself, our presidential politics (given the necessities of fund-raising) has become a form of harlotry. The Constitution commands us to choose a president as God commanded Hosea to choose a wife. Our predicament as voters has something in common with Hosea...
...center is the tip of Mount Moriah, where God tested Abraham by demanding the sacrifice of his son Isaac. That rock is where some scholars believe the Ark of the Covenant sat. But it also lies beneath the golden Dome of the Rock, the spot where Muslims believe the Prophet Muhammad ascended into heaven and back. The main mosque in the compound is al-Aqsa--also 1,300 years old. More sacred to Muslims than any place except Mecca and Medina, the Mount is the single most holy spot for Jews as well. Rabbi Haim Richman, who works...