“Hollywood culture is a universal culture now. Everyone wants to step out of life and into the flat perfections of a movie screen. My own wish to drown was not so different from the desire those girls had to leave… — 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 Image
“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
