Verkkothe covenant and it alone legitimates the corpus of behavioral norms in scripture. In the light of the definition of human evil in biblical and rabbinic judaism as breach of. Greenberg regarding the broken covenant doctrine and his view of christianity. There are two versions \jjirsot\ of r. Verkkorabbinic materials, despite their volume and their importance, present only a partial image of ancient jewish responses to the loss of the jerusalem temple. Verkkoin his 1980 publication, the faith and doubt of holocaust survivors, reeve brenner, an american reform rabbi, commented on the importance of survivor testimonial material in field of jewish studies. Verkkoa hasidic rabbi lost his wife and 11 children in the holocaust. Afterwards, he was asked, “why did miracles occur only during biblical times? Broken tablets, broken people, broken faith. In chapter nine of devarim, moshe revisits the episode of the golden calf and the shattering of. Verkkothe jewish people were at a loss for how to heal from this disaster and yet, somehow, they managed to do so. The early rabbinic text avot de’rabbi.
