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June 1, 2020

Remembering a Bold, Learned, and Eloquent Defender of the Jewish Faith

“How God spoke is a mystery. That God spoke is of the utmost significance.”

Yesterday Rabbi Norman Lamm, a scholar and theologian who served as president of Yeshiva University from 1976 to 2003, died at the age of ninety-two. In 1966, Time magazine published its infamous cover posing the question “Is God dead?” To craft a Jewish response, Commentary magazine posed a series of theological questions to several rabbis of various denominations. Lamm, as one of the respondents, submitted an essay that displays his erudition, intellectual courage, and clarity of thought and expression. On revelation, he writes:

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