“There is a moment in the tractate Menahot when the Rabbis imagine what takes place when Moses ascends Mount Sinai to receive… — Jonathan Rosen Hermeneutics 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… — Jonathan Rosen Darwin 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… — Jonathan Rosen Life 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… — Jonathan Rosen Ambidextrous 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… — Jonathan Rosen Beautiful 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… — Jonathan Rosen Diaspora Copy Share Image
“It means that the things that make us human often make us ill.” — Jonathan Rosen Human 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… — Jonathan Rosen Looks 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… — Jonathan Rosen Books 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… — Jonathan Rosen Clay Copy Share Image
