Liel Leibovitz
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A Broken Hallelujah: Rock and Roll, Redemption, and the Life of Leonard Cohen
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2014
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Fortunate Sons: The 120 Chinese Boys Who Came to America, Went to School, and Revolutionized an Ancient Civilization
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2011
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Stan Lee: A Life in Comics
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2020
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How the Talmud Can Change Your Life: Surprisingly Modern Advice from a Very Old Book
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Conspiracy of Letters
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2013
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Lili Marlene: The Soldiers' Song of World War II
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2008
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Aliya: Three Generations of American-Jewish Immigration to Israel
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2005
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God in the Machine: Video Games as Spiritual Pursuit
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2014
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Zionism: The Tablet Guide
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Lili Marleen: Ein Lied bewegt die Welt
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“The first, Ben Azzai, looked at the divine presence and immediately perished. The second, Ben Zoma, lost his mind. The third, Elisha ben Abuyah, became a heretic and was, from that moment on, known simply as Acher, or “the Other.” Only Akiva, we’re told, entered in peace and left in peace. Why? Jewish scholars have spent centuries offering various intricate explanations, but Akiva’s is best. “It is not because I am greater than my colleagues,” he is quoted as saying in a midrash, “but because of the teaching in the Mishnah, ‘Your deeds will bring you near and your deeds will keep you far.’ ”25 Just as his status as a self-made man of low lineage kept him from receiving the highest honor on earth, so did his deeds enable him to receive the highest honor in higher, celestial spheres. In Yavneh, the kid from nowhere could never be appointed Nasi; in paradise, he and only he is welcomed and protected. Even the angels themselves, the Talmud tells us, resented Akiva this privilege and sought to push him out, but “the Holy One, Blessed be He, said to them: Leave this Elder, for he is fit to serve My glory.”26”
― How the Talmud Can Change Your Life: Surprisingly Modern Advice from a Very Old Book
― How the Talmud Can Change Your Life: Surprisingly Modern Advice from a Very Old Book
“sometimes, if you’re sincere about what you have to say, if you want to communicate the full force of human emotions like grief and longing and gratitude, you try writing and then realize that your words are just as transient as you are, that they always fail you when you need them most, and that if they can’t serve their purpose and convey meaning perfectly—if they can’t reach the unborn and the dead—then they’re better off buried or burned.2”
― A Broken Hallelujah: Rock 'n' Roll, Redemption, and the Life of Leonard Cohen
― A Broken Hallelujah: Rock 'n' Roll, Redemption, and the Life of Leonard Cohen
“Perhaps no line of Cohen’s better captures the essence of his vision. He is telling his listeners what prophetically inclined rabbis have been telling theirs for thousands of years, namely that the world is a place of suffering, that no celestial cataclysm could ever change that, but that there are things here on this earth - art, love, friendship, kindness, music, sex - that have the power to redeem us.”
― A Broken Hallelujah: Rock and Roll, Redemption, and the Life of Leonard Cohen
― A Broken Hallelujah: Rock and Roll, Redemption, and the Life of Leonard Cohen
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