“The Talmud offered a virtual home for an uprooted culture, and grew out of the Jewish need to pack civilization into words and wander out into the world. The Talmud became essential for Jewish survival once the Temple - God's… — Jonathan Rosen Copy Share Image
“In my tradition, God revealed Himself in words and lives in stories and, no, you cannot touch or even see Him. The Word, in Judaism, was never made flesh. The closest God came to embodiment was in the Temple in… — 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. In this account (there are several) Moses ascends to heaven, where he finds God busily adding crownlike ornaments to the letters of the Torah. Moses asks God what He is doing and God explains that in… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
