Blame Plato. There is something odd about our perception of Yehuda Halevi (1075-1141). After all, he composed some of the most sublime poetry written in the Hebrew language. Yet he also wrote the Kuzari, a work regularly seen as advocatin...
There’s a great sketch on Erets Nehederet (Israeli Saturday Night Live) where the Ramban gets confused for the Rambam and he gets increasingly angry about it, eventually giving up and resigning himself to infinite acronymic anonymity. A...
At first glance, the Torah is quite different than the Mishnah. This is not only because of the Torah’s narrative frame, but also because the Torah seems to be univocal. From beginning to end, the Torah is dominated by a third person na...
