J. N.·May 4, 2023Negative CoronationKings and Priests have a common unction of holy oil, a common spirit of sanctification, a common quality of benediction … whatever they do…
J. N.·Mar 28, 2023Song of Songs 4–5.5: Translation and CommentaryIn my senior year at Oberlin I was asked to prepare a twenty-verse section from the Hebrew Bible as the final assignment for a translation…
J. N.·Mar 22, 2023Forms of Life: Poetry and ReligionIn his essay “Pascoli and the Thought of the Voice” Giorgio Agamben treats a linguistic impulse in the poetry of Giovanni Pascoli toward…
J. N.·Mar 5, 2023Getting Serious About RevelryAn unseasonable confession: I hate drunkenness. I hate being drunk and drunk people in turn repel me. Drinking isn’t something I…A response icon2A response icon2
J. N.·Sep 28, 2022Monarchy and MetaphorThe Holy One, Blessed be He, said: Sing to me on Rosh Hashanah verses of kingship […] that I might be your king. (TB Rosh Hashanah 34b)A response icon1A response icon1
J. N.·Sep 6, 2022You Pour Me Like WaterIn the haftorah of Rosh Hashanah we read of Chana, an apparently barren woman who would come miraculously to conceive and give birth to…
J. N.·Aug 16, 2022Kabbalah Studies and the Woman Question“Woman makes a hole in language … we fail to say her.” (Pierre Naveau)A response icon2A response icon2
