Abstract
This question of reading and studying is an essential concern of rabbinic
Judaism and constitutes perhaps both the heart and the pedestal of its learning
culture. We therefore have an enormous responsibility to conduct “an
honest reading, a simple reading, which is to say, a well-read reading, like a
flower, like the ripened fruit of a flower,” writes Charles Peguy.3 A responsibility
on which depends the survival of the greatest literature, George Steiner
emphasizes.4 A passionate responsibility on which depends the viability of a
contemporary renaissance of a Jewish, practice-based religiosity, I would add.
Judaism and constitutes perhaps both the heart and the pedestal of its learning
culture. We therefore have an enormous responsibility to conduct “an
honest reading, a simple reading, which is to say, a well-read reading, like a
flower, like the ripened fruit of a flower,” writes Charles Peguy.3 A responsibility
on which depends the survival of the greatest literature, George Steiner
emphasizes.4 A passionate responsibility on which depends the viability of a
contemporary renaissance of a Jewish, practice-based religiosity, I would add.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Be-Ron Yaḥad; |
| Subtitle of host publication | Studies in Jewish Thought and Theology in Honor of Nehemia Polen |
| Editors | Ariel Evan Mayse, Arthur Green |
| Place of Publication | Brookline, MA |
| Pages | 281-309 |
| Number of pages | 29 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2019 |
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