Navigating Worlds P/B Naor (BKE-NWPB) Costumes Salt and Pepper Shakers

Salt and Pepper Shakers

Exploring Religious Themes in the Thought of Rabbi Joseph B

Just over 100 years ago

ancient and contemporary

Oakland County

Navigating Worlds P/B Naor (BKE-NWPB) Costumes Salt and Pepper ShakersTsimtsum (contraction) and hitpashtut (expansion). These two kabbalistic terms aptly describe the thought of Bezalel Naor. Though diametrically opposed, they come together in this unique moment. The author is at once a hedgehog and a fox, in the usage of Isaiah Berlin. Naor brings to the table both the intense focus, the razor sharp analysis of Rav Soloveitchik of Boston, and the synthetic, unitive perception of reality, of Rav Kook (whose bon mot was