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Gershon Hepner

Gershon Hepner

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Asking Questions without Demanding a Creed

19.04.2024 30

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Why ‘Never Again’ Is Not in the Hebrew Bible

28.03.2024 30

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Tradition, Democracy of Those Who’re Dead

02.03.2024 20

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Maimonides and Spinoza

15.02.2024 10

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The Tenth Commandment, the Primal Sin and Prophylactic Fringes

The Deuteronomic prohibition in the Tenth Commandment of lo tahmod, not to covet what tempts the eyes, explains the primal sin which Adam, helped...

01.02.2024 10

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Tefillin and the Daily Confession

19.01.2024 20

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Never Again

18.12.2023 20

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He that  Sitteth in Heaven will Laugh like Sarah

The reason God, upset by Sarah’s laughter when she learned that she would have a baby boy when she like Abraham was old, asked him why Sarah had...

04.11.2023 7

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Left-Leaning Homochirality Led Lot to Sodom, Perhaps

It seems terrestrial molecules are all left-handed. Nature rules: amino acids have to favor left-handedness, which is the flavor that it...

28.10.2023 20

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Blame Nothing but the Night and Hamas

“Why do you ruin all my years?” Forlorn is this lament that we associate with aging. In Yiddish vos dergeystu mir di yorn? sounds far less...

19.10.2023 10

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Gaza is Huis Clos

Promptly following the fall of the Bastille, the Earl of Exeter, who all the works of French Encyclopédistes and Voltaire had previously enjoyed, ...

13.10.2023 10

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Hoshanah Rabbah, Sukkos and Shemini Atseres

Seventh inning, sukkah lubber, happens on Hoshanah Rabbah. Hit the esrog for a homer, singing qol m’bha’seyr o’mer, whacking weeping...

07.10.2023 20

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Hardly Weatherproof While Roofless on Sukkot

The shelter sukkot have to give is temporary, so that they must be literally ex tempore, not permanent like residences where we live the rest...

29.09.2023 20

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The Yom Kippur of Shell Shock

A failure, Bernard Shaw declared, can be more interesting than a success. A failure happens when you’ve dared to act in ways that although they are...

22.09.2023 10

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Survivors, a New Ancient History

Though designated like pius Aeneas to become survivors of the horrendous Hellenistic holocaust of Troy, many Jews no longer see themselves as...

13.09.2023 10

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Jews Have Nothing in Common with Haman: An opinion 9/2/23

Finding nothing in the whole world in common with himself, Kafka asked why men seemed to expect him to resemble any of his kin or kith or other...

07.09.2023 30

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