The personality of Miriam
Hillel GoldbergJun 06, 2014
JUST when you thought that a burst of creativity in Biblical exegesis became the final word in the field, a subterranean paradigm shift unfolds. With its development...
‘And they established their genealogy’
Hillel GoldbergMay 22, 2014
G-d counts the Jewish people because he loves them. Each person is important to Him. Each census has a more specific reason, too. The census at the start of the...
Doug Seserman’s Jewish journey
Hillel GoldbergMay 15, 2014
SPEAKING at a public victory rally in New York City right after the end of the Six Day War, the late Arthur Hertzberg declaimed with unparalleled emotion: I will...
May the entire land of Israel be sold?
Hillel GoldbergMay 08, 2014
WHAT makes the land of Israel special? Its not just that the history and identity of the Jewish people are rooted there. Its not just that the land is holy;...
‘Covenant’
Hillel GoldbergMay 01, 2014
IF one had to sum up Jewish theology in a single word, it would be covenant. This is grasped instinctively. When Jewish German immigrants on the Lower East Side of...
Trembling, awe, ethics: ‘Fear of G-d’
Hillel GoldbergApr 24, 2014
THERE is no word for accountability in Hebrew, which, it has been suggested, is why Israeli bureaucracy runs amok, stopping people from accomplishing the simplest...
Silence in the Haggadah and beyond
Hillel GoldbergApr 10, 2014
PASSOVER EDITION SECTION A PAGE 4 . . . a time to be silent and a time to speak. Ecclesiastes 3:7 HAGGADAH means telling and Passover, of course, is the...
Denial and the demonic
Hillel GoldbergApr 03, 2014
“There are a few among us — psychoanalysts have encountered them — who are blessed or cursed with a strange imperviousness to the unpleasantness of self-knowledge....
Spiritual markers on the journey of Avrohom and Sorah Larimer
Hillel GoldbergMar 27, 2014
Move over, Cotopaxi. Your tenure in Denver Jewish history began oh so recently, in the 1880s. Once you were king of the hill. The founders. The legends. The people...
Non-reason in Judaism and physics
Hillel GoldbergMar 27, 2014
It turns out that reason has less of a hold on religion and science that one might suppose; or, at least, on Judaism and physics. In Jewish legal lingo, a […]