From the Sources by Eliezer Segal: Napoleonic Codes
by Eliezer Segal (AJNews) – I recently reread Tolstoy’s War and Peace. When reading literary classics, I am often searching for a Jewish angle that…
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From the sources by Eliezer Segal: Of vanities and vehicles
by Eliezer Segal (AJNews) – Jewish thinkers have long been puzzled by the rabbis’ choice of the book of Kohelet [Ecclesiastes] as the designated reading…
From the Sources by Eliezer Segal: Look Who’s Not Talking
By Eliezer Segal (AJNews) – As we’ve been learning from recent American politics, it has become fashionable to “take the Fifth.” The legal principle that…
From the Sources by Eliezer Segal: Rabbi Judah, King Hezekiah… and a Cancelled Fast
by Eliezer Segal (AJNews) – One of the most revered figures in Jewish memory was the Patriarch Rabbi Judah I ben Simeon. Talmudic tradition singled…
From the Sources by Eliezer Segal: The flying ‘nuns’
By Eliezer Segal (AJNews) – There is a brief passage in the book of Numbers that is uniquely enclosed by special symbols, backward versions of…