glorious future

law and legend

"The Jews invented a portable religion in the shape of the Bible, the Torah, and eventually the Talmud, and with other portable forms of writing. So it's now possible to carry the religion, that is embedded in that writing, away from the ruins of political and military power."
- Simon Schama

david v goliath

"From 12th century Jewish philosophy, hope is the belief in the plausibility of the possible as opposed to the necessity of the probable. In other words, to be a realist is to recognize that the world is not a domain where the probable always happens."
- Marshall Ganz, Harvard University

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