Listening to his audiobook Very well done with in depth discussion of many contemporary issues facing Jews it’s clear that he struggles deeply with his own personal relationship to Judaism and his need to be considered as a “good Jew” while many would consider him otherwise
What an admission by this professor! That his children could just "walk away" from being Jewish without a backward glance! It means he gave no Jewish education to his children as is available today. When I attended Hebrew University as an American student 50 years ago, it was filled with American Jewish students who hadn't' any Jewish education other than the minimal Hebrew School. Now all is different; every city has a full time Jewish day school. That Noah Feldman didn't give his children such an education - it is an admission of neglect. Not everyone is spiritual as NF expects. But everyone can learn the mitzvot and study the Tanach - if that person has sufficient education.
If I could ask a question, I'd ask Noah Feldman: What sort of Jewish education did you give your children? Without much Jewish education other than little remembered Hebrew School, my mother read Ethics of the Fathers in English and realized, Judaism is the most moral religion. And my mother decided to marry a Shomer Shabbat (Sabbath observant) man and keep an observant Jewish home. My father had a great deal of Jewish education, attended yeshiva, but my father grew up living with his grandparents. I never asked my father about his relationship with his grandfather and I sorely regret it. In the 1940s, however, most people grew up with religious parents or grandparents who were an influence. My mother's father was European and observant. Now that is not the case. We have intellectual parents, Harvard professors, who know so little it is very sad.
Combining Ecclesiastes ch.3, with Zechariah 4. 6, one gets a pair of wings, might/wartme/go down with the ship, male wing, on the coxswain's side, then, on the time for Peace side, the My-spirit wing: What if. Overall is the Teacher of Adam and the Haredi could be the Power of the love and sanity and sound doctrine fight for Israel?
@@sheep.herderyea the islamic conquest of the area didnt happen they didnt build their temple on top of ours we didnt buy most of the land they didnt start a genocidal war after we were both recognized as separate states none of that happend what you said is what happened 🤡
@@jeremysegal1806 Yes since they have decided to base their membership and identity on being direct descendants a tribe from 3000 years ago. And using that identity to play both sides getting extra benefits privileges over everyone else.
Christianity is based on the notion that the jews are evil and condemned. Islam calls Jewish people the sons of dogs and apes. You're criticizing the wrong "they", but hatemongers like you don't care about the truth
Professor Feldman brings us very insightful thoughts, todá.
Listening to his audiobook Very well done with in depth discussion of many contemporary issues facing Jews it’s clear that he struggles deeply with his own personal relationship to Judaism and his need to be considered as a “good Jew” while many would consider him otherwise
What an admission by this professor! That his children could just "walk away" from being Jewish without a backward glance! It means he gave no Jewish education to his children as is available today. When I attended Hebrew University as an American student 50 years ago, it was filled with American Jewish students who hadn't' any Jewish education other than the minimal Hebrew School. Now all is different; every city has a full time Jewish day school. That Noah Feldman didn't give his children such an education - it is an admission of neglect. Not everyone is spiritual as NF expects. But everyone can learn the mitzvot and study the Tanach - if that person has sufficient education.
If I could ask a question, I'd ask Noah Feldman: What sort of Jewish education did you give your children? Without much Jewish education other than little remembered Hebrew School, my mother read Ethics of the Fathers in English and realized, Judaism is the most moral religion. And my mother decided to marry a Shomer Shabbat (Sabbath observant) man and keep an observant Jewish home. My father had a great deal of Jewish education, attended yeshiva, but my father grew up living with his grandparents. I never asked my father about his relationship with his grandfather and I sorely regret it. In the 1940s, however, most people grew up with religious parents or grandparents who were an influence. My mother's father was European and observant. Now that is not the case. We have intellectual parents, Harvard professors, who know so little it is very sad.
Combining Ecclesiastes ch.3, with Zechariah 4. 6, one gets a pair of wings, might/wartme/go down with the ship, male wing, on the coxswain's side, then, on the time for Peace side, the My-spirit wing: What if. Overall is the Teacher of Adam and the Haredi could be the Power of the love and sanity and sound doctrine fight for Israel?
Sir this is a Wendy's
definitely a professor, talks a lot without saying much
If Israel is a reflection of Judaism then the love of which you speak of is clearly witnessed in Gaza...
it's true. No state has ever conducted an urban battle for such existential stakes with such forbearance.
I still can't get over the neocons' audacity (what they would call chutzpah) in having this guy write Iraq's constitution.
Apparently he also wrote the Tunisian 2014 constitution.
????!!!!!
why do neither resemble a semite? ...from that region, that is.
Because an analysis of European Jewish DNA indicates 50% Italian ancestry,40% middle eastern,and 10% Slavic,that is 60% European ancestry.
@@stanleyberger8654 so a mixed bag if lollies
@@sheep.herder. Your response is ambiguous. Is it your opinion that genetic homogeneity would be important in some way?
@@sheep.herderyea the islamic conquest of the area didnt happen
they didnt build their temple on top of ours
we didnt buy most of the land
they didnt start a genocidal war after we were both recognized as separate states
none of that happend
what you said is what happened 🤡
@@jeremysegal1806 Yes since they have decided to base their membership and identity on being direct descendants a tribe from 3000 years ago. And using that identity to play both sides getting extra benefits privileges over everyone else.
The patronising way they speak about other religions is so off-putting.
Try not to let it get under your skin too much.
@@UnownLeaf You're right, I wouldn't want to catch some deadly disease.
@@Peter-ov6xh You already have.
@UnownLeaf To have that disease would be a fate worse than death. How unfortunate for me!
Christianity is based on the notion that the jews are evil and condemned. Islam calls Jewish people the sons of dogs and apes. You're criticizing the wrong "they", but hatemongers like you don't care about the truth
Pomposity!
If there's only one God Why are people fighting Killing each other over a God that Nobody can prove is real
They killing each other in spite of G_d. We are killing each other because of our very human faults.
That's because it is not the same God for the Jews and the Muslims.