Contents

Introduction

Culture Creates Culture Naftali Rothenberg

Bereshit – Genesis Parashat Bereshit Hamutal Bar-Yosef on A.B. Yehoshua

Parashat Noah David Ohana on Nehama Leibowitz, Yitzhak Danziger

Parashat Lekh-lekha Gitit Holzman on Elia Benamozegh

Parashat Vayera Hagai Dagan on Søren Kierkegaard

Parashat Hayei Sarah Eliezer Schweid on Nahmanides, , A. D. Gordon

Parashat Toledot Irit Aminof on Yohanan, Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish

Parashat Vayetze Yeshaya Steinberger on Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler

Parashat Vayishlah Erella Yedgar on Nehama Leibowitz

Parashat Vayeshev Shimon Gershon Rosenberg (Shagar) on Nahman of Breslov

Parashat Miketz Michael Rosenak on Maimonides, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Nehama Leibowitz

Parashat Vayigash Eliezer Schweid on Isaac Abravanel

Parashat Vayehi Yeshaya Steinberger on Yitzhak Hutner

Shemot – Exodus Parashat Shemot Pnina Galpaz-Feller on Sigmund Freud

Parashat Va’era Bryna Levy on Parashat Bo Shlomo Tikochinski on Nahmanides

Parashat Beshalah Yehoyada Amir on Spinoza, Mendelssohn, Buber

Parashat Yitro Yehoyada Amir on Franz Rosenzweig

Parashat Mishpatim Yotam Benziman on

Parashat Terumah Hava Pinhas-Cohen on Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Parashat Tetzaveh Elhanan Yakira on Barukh Spinoza

Parashat Ki Tissa Yair Tzaban on Ber Borochov

Parashat Vayakhel Avi Katzman on Mordecai Kaplan

Parashat Pekudei Benzi Schreiber on Avraham Krol

Bamidbar – Numbers Parashat Bamidbar Gili Zivan on Rosenzweig, Fromm, Leibowitz

Parashat Naso Shalom Ratzaby on A. D. Gordon

Parashat Beha’alotekha Hanoch Ben Pazi on Yitzhak Hutner

Parashat Shelah-lekha Yoske Achituv on Hayim of Volozhin

Parashat Korah Avinoam Rosenak on A. I. Kook, Yeshayahu Leibowitz

Parashat Hukat Benjamin Lau on Yitzhak Meir Alter

Parashat Balak Yossi Turner on Nahman Krochmal

Parashat Pinhas Yedidyah Yitzhaki on Spinoza, Locke, A.I. Kook Parashat Matot Reuven Gerber on A. D. Gordon

Parashat Mas’ei Michael Zvi Nehorai on I.J. Reines

Vayikra – Leviticus Parashat Vayikra Shmuel Wygoda on

Parashat Tzav Warren Zev Harvey on

Parashat Shemini Michael Zvi Nehorai on A.I. Kook

Parashat Tazri’a Jacob J. Schacter on Joseph B. Soloveitchik

Parashat Metzora Naftali Rothenberg on the Hafetz Hayim

Parashat Aharei Mot Avigdor Shinan on an Anonymous Thinker

Parashat Kedoshim Reuven Gerber on A.I. Kook

Parashat Emor Nahum Rakover on A.I. Kook

Parashat Behar Benjamin Brown on the Hazon Ish

Parashat Behukotai Tsvia Walden on Abraham Joshua Heschel

Devarim – Deuteronomy Parashat Devarim Hagai Dagan on Hans Jonas

Parashat Va’ethanan Marla L. Frankel on

Parashat Ekev Alvin I. Schiff on Ovadiah Sforno

Parashat Re’eh Einat Ramon on Judith Plaskow Parashat Shoftim Hannah Kasher on Joseph Ibn Kaspi

Parashat Ki Teze Rachel Elior on Dalia Rabikovitz

Parashat Ki Tavo Christoph Schmidt on Hermann Cohen

Parashat Nitzavim Chaniel Farber on the Hafetz Hayim

Parashat Vayelekh Lea Mazor on Shulamith Hareven

Parashat Ha’azinu Moshe Sokolow on Solomon Ephraim Luntschitz

Parashat Vezot Haberakhah Naftali Rothenberg on the Meshekh Hokhmah

Biographies

List of Authors