Reblen-New Blog on Jewish Philosophy
Rabbi Leonard Levin has inaugurated a new blog on Jewish philosophy, Reblen. From the blog’s description,
Topics of this blog will vary. For starters: (1) What does it mean to affirm God in our vision of reality? (Answering the Apikoros); (2) What have the Hebrew and Greek traditions contributed to our mental tool-kit that we take for granted in digesting reality? (Synoptic View of Western Thought, from a Jewish viewpoint); (3) What is strangely attractive about the Talmud, as indispensable rubric of the Jewish mind? (4) What does Jewish wisdom have to say about Tzedakah, the open-handed giving that is still so important in helping to supply today’s needs in the world?
Among his numerous scholarly pursuits, Leonard has either translated himself or contributed to the translation of a number of classic works in Jewish studies such as Heschel’s Heavenly Torah: As Refracted Through the Generations
and Isaac Heinemann’s The Reasons for the Commandments in Jewish Thought: From the Bible to the Renaissance
