Jewish Texts

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 master Torah commentator who foreshadowed biblical criticism

The lives of Abraham and Job provide us with two models for confronting poverty.

Midrash explains how Moses could be happy with dying.

Exploring Moses and Aaron's confrontation with Pharaoh

What if there is no valley of the shadow of death?

A compilation of aggadic (narrative) and halachic (legal) midrash

In "escstatic" mysticism, the Land of Israel is a metaphor for the human body.

Medieval kabbalah offers various approaches to the Land of Israel.

In 13th-century mysticism, two streams of thought emerged regarding the Land of Israel.