Academe, January 1st, 2001
Yeshiva University's undergraduate colleges search for a way to balance devotion to Torah study with the demands of a serious liberal arts education.
LIKE WITTGENSTEIN, I CANNOT HELP LOOKING at every question from a religious point of view. But my perspective, unlike Wittgenstein's, derives from, and aims to conform itself to, the teachings of Orthodox Judaism. These teachings reside in a vast literature, starting with the Hebrew Bible and the Talmudic corpus and continuing through over a thousand years of legal and theological commentary, works of jurisprudence, and philosophical creativity....
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