Prophets

Observation · January 17, 2020
Bookends to the Jews’ First Experience with Statehood
By Atar Hadari
Moses inaugurated Jewish national independence. The prophet Jeremiah comes to oversee its collapse.
Observation · April 13, 2016
The Silencing of Prophecy and the Rise of Oral Law
By Atar Hadari
The book of Malachi, read on the Sabbath before Passover, marks the moment in Jewish history when priestly authority gave way to rabbinic judgment.
Observation · March 10, 2016
The Discomfiting but Urgent Message of the Prophet Nahum
By Michael W. Schwartz
A voice of “blazing heat and pellucid clarity,” Nahum reminds us that, like justice and love, vengeance is an element of God's being.