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The High Holidays and Reason’s Limits

Noah Glyn

I do not know how common it is for an individual, who has failed to view a single football game from September until January, to suddenly sit in rapt...

How Jewish Professionals Read the Talmud

Noah Glyn

The Talmud begins appropriately enough with a question: “From what time do we say the [prayer] shema ?” The answer: “From the time the priests enter to eat the...