PhD Candidate @HebrewU | Modern Jewish (Political) Theology | Translator, Editor | Theorizing from the ruins of Logos
Joined September 2011
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Without the people's consent, appointing a king isn't a mitzvah. It's a sin. Reading the Rambam, Rav Soloveitchik finds two conditions: real historical need, and the people asking for it.
Full class: youtu.be/IPgopMOUoDo
#Soloveitchik #Rambam #Democracy
The plagues weren't needed to free the Israelites. For Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, they show that the supreme power in the universe takes the side of the powerless.
Full class: youtu.be/WK9su_M7MIQ
#RabbiSacks #Exodus #PoliticalTheology
One word in Rav Moshe Feinstein's 1984 letter urging Jews to vote sits in a strange gap. Here's why, and why nobody knows what the original word was.
Full class: youtu.be/BgLNfOl9CGA
#RavMosheFeinstein #JewishHistory #JewishThought
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Rav Moshe said to vote out of gratitude to the state. Rav Soloveitchik says you are the state, and that makes even the voting booth a divine task.
Full class: youtu.be/IPgopMOUoDo
#Soloveitchik #Democracy #PoliticalTheology
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In a democracy, the voter is the state. So who are we thanking? Rav Moshe Feinstein urged Jews to vote out of hakarat ha-tov, gratitude to America.
Full class: youtu.be/BgLNfOl9CGA
#RavMosheFeinstein #Democracy #JewishThought
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My @dalet_resh_shin course “Orthodox Liberalism: Three Jewish Theologies of Democracy” is now on YouTube!
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Rav Soloveitchik on tselem elokim as human dignity and democratic self-governance, and on humility as a reason for pluralism in a heterogeneous society.
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Rav Sacks on the "Abrahamic politics" of freedom and liberalism, on the problems of civil society and on covenant as a balm for liberalism's alienation.
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החלטתי להצביע לציבור החרדי, רק כי זו לחלוטין המפלגה היחידה שלא נדנדה לי בטלפון. אין לתאר כמה אנטגוניזם השיחות האלו גורמות. זה מיושן ומעיק ולא שייך לעידן האינטרנט.
The last class of my series on Jewish Theologies of Liberal Democracy for @dalet_resh_shin is this week! Come learn with us about R. Sacks’ “Abrahamic Politics of Freedom”!
levi morrow retweeted
The last class of my series on Jewish Theologies of Liberal Democracy for @dalet_resh_shin is this week! Come learn with us about R. Sacks’ “Abrahamic Politics of Freedom”!
