Jewish Wisdom
A Haggadah for Traditionalists and Humanists Alike
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Herbert Levine reviews Marcia Falk’s, “Night of Beginnings: A Passover Haggadah.”
Reviews of Books & Films
Does “Interspiritual” Imply Post-Jewish?
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Herbet Levine reviews Haviva Ner-David, “Dreaming Against the Current: A Rabbi’s Soul Journey”
Arts & Cultural Critique
The Voice We Need Now: Whitman at 200
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Herbert Levine remembers Walt Whitman on the 200th anniversary of his birth: his “democratic wisdom is as relevant today as when it was written.”
2017
New Psalms for a Paradigm Shift in Judaism
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THESE VERSES of a contemporary psalm came to me in Hebrew, the language of Jewish continuity and the one I find best suited for enduring Jewish creativity. I wrote most of the poems in this essay first in Hebrew and then translated them into English. They offer alternatives to traditional forms of Jewish prayer and psalmody that do not require a leap of faith. Think of them as post-theistic—that is, their author has been deeply imbued with theism, maintained a lifelong quarrel with it, and emerged as an unconflicted non-theist.