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There is a conversation going on, and you can be part of it.
It was begun by Abraham, continued by Moses, and then the compilers
of the Torah, the writers of the biblical histories, the megillot and wisdom
literature, the psalmists and prophets.
Then there were new voices: the first rabbis - people like Hillel and Akiva,
the sages of Pirke Avot, the arguers of the Talmud. And then on to those
who interpreted and argued with these earlier rabbis, who themselves
became voices in the Talmud.
Soon came the commentators, like Rashi and Nachmanides, who
re-imagined the conversation for their own generations; and also the
philosophers, like Maimonides, and Joseph Caro, who wrote the Shulkhan
Arukh, and, much later, Mendelssohn and Rosenzweig and Buber.
And, in between: the Baal Shem Tov, and Moses de Leon, who (perhaps)
wrote the Zohar, and Nachman of Bratslav, and Baruch Spinoza, and the
poet, Judah HaLevi, and - in our own day - Yehudah Amichai and Eli
Wiesel and Anne Frank, and so many, many others.
Each added a voice - and this voice is yours. You own it. You have merely
to claim it, engage it, answer it.
This is the mission of the Tauber Jewish Studies Program. We invite you
to join the conversation.
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