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Robert Gordis

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American rabbi and theologian

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Born
1908
Works
59

Top works

  • Conservative Judaism
  • The ladder of prayer
  • A commentary on the text of Lamentations
  • Jewish learning and Jewish existence
  • The book of Proverbs

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Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
United States
Active from
1992

Discography

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Quotes

  • Countless generations of students and general readers have been intrigued by this deeply human book, which half reveals and half conceals the fascinating yet enigmatic personality of its author.
  • it will never be outmoded as long as the systole and diastole of human life survives, and men fluctuate between progress and reaction, growth and decline, hope and illusion.
  • It is human love, not that of a god, which is glorified in the Song, and that with a wealth of detail, which rules out an allegorical interpretation.
  • Those humble but indomitable workers, to whom later generations referred by the collective name of Baale Masorah, Masters of Tradition, performed in obscurity their Herculean task of guarding the Biblical Text against loss or variation.

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