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    On Yeshayahu Leibowitz’s Birthday, Let’s Remember To Be Suspicious
    • Jan 30, 2018

    On Yeshayahu Leibowitz’s Birthday, Let’s Remember To Be Suspicious

    Today is the Jan 29 birthday of Yeshayahu Leibowitz, the late Israeli Orthodox Jewish thinker and agent provocateur. I’ve been reading his weekly Torah commentary, Accepting The Yoke of Heaven. The parsha of Veyechi, which passed just before the New Year started, tells of Jacob’s death, while it’s haftarah tells of King David’s death. Leibowitz’ bold and typically prophetic words on the difference between the two deaths struck me with particular force. First, though, who was

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