13 Feb 2017

Introduction There are some moments in time that are so powerful, so consequential, that they seem to crystallize, to become matter, to ossify. Time becomes bone. Seven such bone-like moments (and only seven) are found in the Hebrew Bible when it is read in the Hebrew. Those moments are so consequential in human history and in the history of the Jewish people that they are described in...

14 Jan 2017

Wattles’ wonderful book on the Golden Rule, published in 1996 by the Oxford University Press, is the product of ten years of research stimulated by his work on the subject for a 1985 Stanford University Golden Rule seminar. Harry J. Gensler, the noted Golden Rule scholar, termed Wattles' book "the first scholarly book on the GR in English since the 17th century". The bulk of the bo...