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...Rosenzweig said that members of the administration at Stanford have informed Moynihan of the planned protest...
...Eulogy. He was anything but melancholy. A visiting poet friend later wrote: "Behind the desk, in the chair, Franz Rosenzweig was throned. The moment our eyes met his, community was established. Everything corporeal became subject to a new order, irradiated by beauty. What reigned here was not pressure and duress, but utter freedom...
Binding Commandment. Even more important and enduring was the middle- of-the-road view that Rosenzweig took of the Halakhah, the elaborate body of law set down in Jewish tradition. Buber virtually reduced Halakhah to individual inclination, arguing that its prescriptions were useful only to a Jew who found them personally fulfilling. But Rosenzweig saw the law as something stronger, not so much a set of rules as a universally binding commandment to seize every opportunity to perform a good work, or mitzvah. Laws that did not serve such good ends in a particular historical setting simply no longer applied...
Ever since his youth, Rosenzweig had believed that the ultimate test of one's philosophy was his life. "Better write than read," he wrote in his diary in 1907, "better write poetry than write; better live than write poetry." His life was as good as his word. The year after The Star of Redemption appeared, he noticed the first signs of a creeping paralysis that immobilized him within two years. Inexplicably, it stopped before reaching his vital organs, but left him with the ability to move only his right thumb slightly. For Rosenzweig, that was enough. With his wife...
...Rosenzweig died in 1929, still full of faith. He had asked that no eulogy be given. Buber read the 73rd Psalm, a verse of which Rosenzweig had selected for his headstone...