Word: talmudic
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...stimulation came from a poor student who dined with his family once a week. It was an old Jewish custom to take in a needy religious scholar to share the Sabbath meal; the Einsteins modified the tradition by hosting instead a medical student on Thursdays. His name was Max Talmud, and he began his weekly visits when he was 21 and Einstein...
...growing strength of fundamentalist religions, Andrew Sullivan suggested that "moderate," "tolerant" and "humble" believers hold the key to religious peace and sensible politics. Nonsense. When in history has religion, however moderate, prevented or eliminated the ignorance and abuses of zealotry? Even a liberalized interpretation of the Bible, Koran or Talmud offers no guidance on human rights, constitutional guarantees, parliamentary democracy or international law. Those conventions and compacts had to be worked out by painstakingly applying unaided reason to the messy affairs of the real world. If we are to survive the current wave of reactionary fundamentalism, rational humanism once again...
...movie “Yentl,” Barbra Streisand plays a young woman who wants nothing more than to study the Jewish scriptures and the Talmud, but she is unable to do so because of her gender. In real life, it’s becoming increasingly clear that Streisand wants nothing more than to be a political activist, but she is unable to do so because she’s a singer...
...growing strength of fundamentalist religions, Andrew Sullivan suggested that "moderate," "tolerant" and "humble" believers hold the key to religious peace and sensible politics. Nonsense. When in history has religion, however moderate, prevented or eliminated the ignorance and abuses of zealotry? Even a liberalized interpretation of the Bible, Koran or Talmud offers no guidance on human rights, constitutional guarantees, parliamentary democracy or international law. Those conventions and compacts had to be worked out by painstakingly applying unaided reason to the messy affairs of the real world. If we are to survive the current wave of reactionary fundamentalism, rational humanism once again...
...creatures, is not moral. Nature is blind. Floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, disease germs, speeding bullets, they are all equal opportunity offenders. They have no way of knowing whether it's a good person or a bad person in their path. In fact, there's a passage in the Talmud [Jewish scripture] that says that God's justice would demand that certain things not happen, but nature is not just and those things happen. TIME: Does that separate you, to some extent, from the Orthodox Jewish community? Kushner: I get a better reception from Mormons than I do from the Orthodox Jews...