Talmud Four Lectures

Author: [French] Emmanuel Lévinas
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Publish Date: 2002-12-01
Features: The Babylonian Talmud restores the simplified cruelty recorded in the Bible. Lévinas delves deeply into the "all the concerns and guilt contained within Jewish consciousness throughout history" when explaining the tractate Sota. There is the "humanity crisis" - the sun, moon, and earth are ashamed; the crisis of faith - "The Promised Land is not the permitted land"; the crisis of the authorization of national superiority - "to appeal to the right derived from the spiritual superiority of Israel is inappropriate." Indeed, even under the name of establishing a heavenly kingdom, occupying a piece of land is always as heavy as carrying a cross.