In Cursed: A Social Portrait of the Kielce Pogrom, Joanna Tokarska-Bakir investigates the July 4, 1946, Kielce pogrom, a milestone in the immediate post-Holocaust events impacting Jewish life in Poland and the Jewish diaspora. This massacre compelled thousands of Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust to flee postwar Poland. It remains a negative reference point in the Polish historical narrative and represents a lack of reckoning with the role of antisemitism in postwar Polish society and identity politics.[…]
Are Miracles Supernatural?
Thoughts on Parashat Beshalach
Our tradition does not see the essence of miracles in their supernatural character. This is a Greek-Christian concept that is debated (which does not mean “accepted”) in the rabbinical literature of the Middle Ages, in the writings of philosophers such as Maimonides and Rabbeinu Bachya. It happened due to the reception of Greek philosophy that occurred through the works of Arab philosophers of the 10th-12th centuries and Arabic translations of the works of ancient philosophers. It is so because neither the Hebrew Bible nor the Talmud knows the concept of ‘nature’ or[…]
Czy cuda są nadprzyrodzone?
Refleksja nad paraszą Beszalach
Nasza tradycja nie dopatruje się esencji cudów w ich ponadnaturalnym charakterze. To grecko-chrześcijański koncept, który jest debatowany (nie mylić z “zaakceptowany”) w literaturze rabinicznej średniowiecza, w pismach filozofów takich jak Majmonides czy Rabejnu Bachja, zasadniczo pod wpływem recepcji filozofii greckiej, która nastąpiła poprzez dzieła filozofów arabskich X-XII wieku oraz arabskie przekłady dzieł filozofów starożytnych. Jest tak ponieważ ani Biblia hebrajska, ani Talmud zasadniczo nie zna[…]
The Law and Love
Thoughts on Parashat Bo
This week’s parasha talks about the last Egyptian plague, which is at the same time that marks the beginning of our Exodus from Egypt:
Moses said, “Thus says the LORD: Toward midnight I will go forth among the Egyptians, and every first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the first-born of the slave girl who is behind the millstones; and all the first-born of the cattle. And there shall be a loud cry in all the land of Egypt, such as has never been or will ever be again; but not a dog shall snarl at any of the[…]
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