Yuval Jobani: 2 books
Women of the Wall
Navigating Religion in Sacred Sites
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
In October of 2014, 12-year-old Sasha Lutt read from a tiny Torah scroll as a part of her bat mitzvah in the Women's section of the plaza at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site. Surrounded by members of the multi-denominational organization, the Women of the Wall, one of whom had smuggled...
The Role of Contradictions in Spinoza's Philosophy
The God-intoxicated heretic
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Spinoza is commonly perceived as the great metaphysician of coherence. The Euclidean manner in which he presented his philosophy in the Ethics has led readers to assume they are facing a strict and consistent philosophical system that necessarily follows from itself.
As opposed to the prevailing...