I Worry About The Israeli Moral Standard,

Throughout Early Modernity There Were Very Strong Pressures On Jews To Assimilate. Assimilating Meant Cutting Your Ties With The Community Of Origin.

Every Interpretation Is But An Introduction To Another Interpretation, And That Is How Talmud Pages Are Printed.

Freedom Without Security Portends Chaos, Perpetual Anxiety And Fear. Security Without Freedom Means Slavery. So, Each On Its Own Is Awful; Only Together They Make For A Good Life. But, A Big "but": Being Both Necessary, Complementing Each Other, They Are Nevertheless Virtually Incompatible.

In Our World Of Rampant Individualisation, Relationships Are Mixed Blessings. They Vacillate Between A Sweet Dream And A Nightmare, And There Is No Telling When One Turns Into The Other.

Lev (léon) Shestov, A Russian Jew Who Later Became A French Jew And Even Converted To Catholicism, Defined God Not By His Power To Create The Laws Of Universe, But His Ability To Break Them At Will - The Capacity For Miracles. God Could Cancel The Past! For Instance, God Could Decide Retrospectively, That Socrates Was Never Poisoned... Assimilation Demanded A Miracle: That You Stop Having Been Somebody Else Before... But Only God Can Do It.