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Shabbat Reading: The Red and the Black by Stendhal
The Red and the Black is both a perfect romance and the finest satire.
Yeshua Tolle
Dec 22, 20241 min read
from My Commonplace Book (these spotty damn mangoes)
Saul Bellow's Henderson on the "spotty damn mangoes" that make us feel the sorrow of living.
Yeshua Tolle
Dec 14, 20241 min read
Shabbat Reading: Caligula by Albert Camus
A moral realism most of us today lack subtly girds Camus’s art.
Yeshua Tolle
Dec 1, 20241 min read
from My Commonplace Book (moral illusionism)
Ludwig Lewisohn on the moral illusionism that bedevils British and American thinkers.
Yeshua Tolle
Nov 28, 20241 min read
Shabbat Reading: Les penchants criminels de l'Europe démocratique by Jean-Claude Milner
Milner’s book is a warning to Jews that Europe isn’t done trying to solve the problem they pose.
Yeshua Tolle
Nov 24, 20241 min read
from My Commonplace Book (a problem and its solution)
Jean-Claude Milner on the Jewish problem and its solution by a Europe bent on framing Jews as a problem
Yeshua Tolle
Nov 23, 20241 min read
Shabbat Reading: Kol Dodi Dofek by Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik
On the eve of the 1956 Suez War, Rabbi Soloveitchik wrote the key text of non-messianic religious Zionism.
Yeshua Tolle
Nov 17, 20243 min read
from My Commonplace Book (like Jonah)
Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik on Israel as the thorn in the side of the assimilationist.
Yeshua Tolle
Nov 17, 20241 min read
Shabbat Reading: Israel Alone
This book is a plea to the world to heed Israel's example.
Yeshua Tolle
Nov 10, 20242 min read
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