I read the first 3 topics (Yom Tov, Rosh Hashana, and Aseres Ymei Teshuva).
Also, full disclosure, I learn this every year for each Jewish holiday. It’s the best overview out there if each Jewish holiday.
⚠️ It’s in Hebrew
Rav Zevin is under-appreciated.
He was a masterful writer, the sweetest clearest Hebrew in the world. He draws upon all schools of Jewish thought and weaves together masterful essays.
Even those who appreciate him, still under-appreciate him.
SHAME ON ALL OF US THAT THERE IS NO SERIOUS SCHOLARSHIP, BOOKS, BIOGRAPHIES ABOUT RAV ZEVIN
Unless there is? 🧐
Please reach out if you know of secondary literature about Rav Zevin.
Rav Zevin and Rav Kasher are the PhD’s I hope are completed in my lifetime.
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This incredible work by @YehudahMirsky is based on his earlier dissertation, which I also had the chance to read. Both remarkable, though there are many updates that make this worth reading even if you’ve peeked at his PhD.
The book was published by my friends at @ASP_Boston!
In many ways this book was the perfect compliment to what I read last week.
Rav Isaac HaLevi projected his institutional ideals on the ideas surrounding the formation of the Talmud.
Rav Kook, who corresponded with him, did something similar with modernity and mysticism.