Summary
Rabbi who, in Yavne: A Jewish Case for Equality in Israel-Palestine’s framing, asked the Roman Emperor in 70 CE to “Give me Yavne and its Sages” as the Temple was about to fall, founding the academies from which a new form of Jewish worship based on prayer and study came (Yavne: A Jewish Case for Equality in Israel-Palestine, lines 82, 186).
Details
- Beinart uses the episode as his model for distinguishing form from essence: animal sacrifice turned out not to be essential to being a Jew, and neither, he argues, is supporting a Jewish state (line 82).
- The closing returns to the episode: asking for Yavne acknowledged that a phase of Jewish history had run its course, and Beinart argues that time has come again (line 186).
Related pages
Yavne: A Jewish Case for Equality in Israel-Palestine, Yavne, Peter Beinart