Episode 133 L’Chaim and the Jewish Love of Life
A translation error in the traditional Jewish toast obscures its deeper meaning.
Supplemental Materials:
- Click here to read Leon Kass’s essay, “L’Chaim and Its Limits.”
- Click here to listen to a podcast with Rabbi Soloveichik about Kass’s essay.
- Click here to read Philologos’s column about “l’chaim.”
- Click here to read Rabbi Soloveichik’s review of Douglas Murray’s book, Democracies and Death Cults.
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Rabbi Soloveichik’s yearlong “Ten-Minute Mitzvah” podcast is generously sponsored by Ivan and Suzana Kaufman.
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