You sound like you’re calling for a blend of apologetics and outreach(hey, Zohar, can we say ‘Kirov’?) and then you use Tifferet in the next sentence. Back to the tribe, at least the Jewishly literate part.
Just kidding, of course, Michael.
Actually, your use of tifferet makes me think of how small the American Jewish audience— and the diaspora in general — is for writing that seeks to explore Jewish ideas for the non- specialist but that counts on a modicum of familiarity with Hebrew concepts.
It’s not philosophy or satisfying if it’s merely pretty. And the confessional memoirist may stray into narcissistic navel gazing.
“There is a place beyond the binary opposition of Eat, Pray, Love and the Critique of Pure Reason. I’ll meet you there.”
And that place is called Tifferet.
You sound like you’re calling for a blend of apologetics and outreach(hey, Zohar, can we say ‘Kirov’?) and then you use Tifferet in the next sentence. Back to the tribe, at least the Jewishly literate part.
Just kidding, of course, Michael.
Actually, your use of tifferet makes me think of how small the American Jewish audience— and the diaspora in general — is for writing that seeks to explore Jewish ideas for the non- specialist but that counts on a modicum of familiarity with Hebrew concepts.