What can medieval Jewish philosophers teach us about today’s deepest dilemmas? In this four-part series, we’ll explore how the great thinkers of the medieval Jewish tradition—Maimonides, Saadia Gaon, Rabbi Yehuda Halevi, and others—grappled with questions that remain urgent today: Can science and Torah both be true? Is tradition still trustworthy in a skeptical age? What does it mean to live a good life? And how do we respond when the Torah seems morally troubling? Analyzing these texts together, we will see how these classic voices offer bold, surprising answers to the challenges of modern faith, identity, and ethics.
Levi Morrow received semikhah from the Shehebar Sephardic Center in Jerusalem and is a PhD candidate at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where he is researching Rav Soloveitchik’s political theology.
He wrote his MA in Jewish Philosophy on Rav Shagar at Tel Aviv University, and he is the translator of Living Time: Festival Discourses for the Present Age, a collection of Rav Shagar’s holiday derashot recently published by Maggid Books.
Levi teaches Jewish philosophy in Jerusalem, where he lives with his wife and their three kids.
