Rabbi Louis Jacobs

This medieval Bible commentator from Portugal and Spain was influenced by personal experience.

Coexistence and conflict.

A Hasidic spiritual leader believed to maintain a channel to God.

Can faith and reason coexist in Jewish thought?

Founder of the Chabad school of Hasidism.

The grandson of Rashi and leader of medieval French Jewry.

The problem of divine withdrawal inspires an alternate view of the universe.

A historian of Judaism with a deep faith in tradition.

Should Jews feel one emotion over the other--or both equally?

A master Torah commentator who foreshadowed biblical criticism