Judaism for the Thinking Person

The Tower of Babel and the Problem of Identity-Based "Truths"


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The plain sense of the brief Tower of Babel story is that dividing people up by their own languages is a curse that prevents cooperation (even if the Rabbis read the story differently). Using Coleman Hughes's essay on the Civil Rights hero Bayard Rustin, I wonder if the curse of our times is the identiy-based division of truths: is this modern paradigm a blessing of diversity or a curse for our much needed cooperation in solving our collective problems?

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Judaism for the Thinking PersonBy Rabbi Nadav Caine

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