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Exploring Gan Eden - Rabbi Chaim Eisen

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JL;DR SUMMARY Rabbi Chaim Eisen explores the concept of Gan Eden across multiple Jewish texts, highlighting the divergence between its descriptions in the Tanakh and interpretations found in Talmudic and Midrashic literature. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

  • At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
  • This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
  • Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
  • But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
  • And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.
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TalmudJewish LawRambamMidrashTanakhSymbolismMedieval Jewish PhilosophyRambanAllegoryGan Eden

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Jerusalem, Israel
"...as a senior lecturer at the Orthodox Union Jerusalem World Center."

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