The COVID war

I’ve been reading a book by Yehezkel Kaufmann, The Religion of Israel.  Kaufmann’s discussion of the role of the classical prophets is an important addition to our investigation of the prophets through the insights of Abraham Heschel.  Soon we will begin an in-depth study of Kaufmann’s work on my other web site (ivebeenskipped.com).  Today, as…

COVID Catastrophes

“We’ll just connect on Skype.” “We can do a ZOOM conference.” “All the classes are on-line now.” Oh, did you think that the issues fostered by the COVID-19 virus were limited to medical and economic?  Did you believe that human isolation as a preventative measure was really a good thing?  That it “saved” innumerable lives?…