It's the side-by-side culture of the Talmud I like so much. 'On the one hand' and 'on the other hand' is frustrating for people seeking absolute faith, but for me it gives religion an ambidextrous quality that suits my temperament. — Jonathan Rosen Copy Share Image
“There is a moment in the tractate Menahot when the Rabbis imagine what takes place when Moses ascends Mount Sinai to receive the Torah.… — Jonathan Rosen Copy Share
“Call it the Darwinian contradiction. We come down from the trees and walk upright and what do we get for it? Foot pain! Bad… — Jonathan Rosen Copy Share
“Hollywood culture is a universal culture now. Everyone wants to step out of life and into the flat perfections of a movie screen. My… — Jonathan Rosen Copy Share
It's the side-by-side culture of the Talmud I like so much. 'On the one hand' and 'on the other hand' is frustrating for people… — Jonathan Rosen Copy Share
Starlets were always turning up dead in people's pools. They fished them out like goldfish. Nobody seemed to find it unusual that so many… — Jonathan Rosen Copy Share
“The Talmud offered a virtual home for an uprooted culture, and grew out of the Jewish need to pack civilization into words and wander… — Jonathan Rosen Copy Share
Most people don't want to die, but they don't want to live either. I am speaking about men now as much as women. They… — Jonathan Rosen Copy Share
“In my tradition, God revealed Himself in words and lives in stories and, no, you cannot touch or even see Him. The Word, in… — Jonathan Rosen Copy Share
The Talmud tells a story about a great Rabbi who is dying, he has become a goses, but he cannot die because outside all… — Jonathan Rosen Copy Share
