The Schrift - Ancient Jewish Wisdom for Modern Times

Vayeshev - The Twins of Tamar and Zarathustra's Overcoming of Nihilism - Episode 9


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Ironically, opposites often turn out to be nearly identical. Religion and atheism, life and death, infinity and the moment, nihilism and transcendence. According to Thomas Mann, when Joseph and Jacob sat together in Jacob's tent, they celebrated a Passover seder. Does this view represent the theology of the Talmud or the secularism of biblical archaeology? Perhaps it can be both, and more. From Nietzsche's Zarathustra, we learn that, to arrive at Truth, a person must hold two contradictions simultaneously together, and artfully use one to triumph over the other.

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Music: Arnold Schönberg - "Mondestrunken"

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The Schrift - Ancient Jewish Wisdom for Modern TimesBy Steven Toby Weinberg

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