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Shabbat Reading: S. Y. Agnon's Days of Awe
Fusing together passages from 300 books, Days of Awe explores the High Holidays in their grand meaning and loveliest intricacies.

Yeshua Tolle
Sep 28, 20241 min read


Shabbat Reading: Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows
There is no book in the English language more charming than The Wind in the Willows.

Yeshua Tolle
Sep 21, 20241 min read


Shabbat Reading: Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is as delightfully strange as its adaptations. What I couldn’t anticipate was its dreamlike calm.

Yeshua Tolle
Sep 14, 20241 min read


Shabbat Reading: Marc Shapiro's Saul Lieberman and the Orthodox
The greatest Talmudist of the 20th century is unknown in the community that cares most about the Talmud—the Orthodox. That wasn’t always so.

Yeshua Tolle
Sep 7, 20241 min read


Shabbat Reading: Saul Bellow's Herzog
Cracked up by divorce and disillusionment, Moses E. Herzog writes letters to the living and the dead.

Yeshua Tolle
Jul 13, 20241 min read


Shabbat Reading: Rose Macaulay's They Went to Portugal
Rose Macaulay is our witty guide to eight centuries of Anglo-Portuguese exchange.

Yeshua Tolle
Jun 15, 20241 min read
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