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From Athens to Jerusalem: From Balanced Personality to Passionate Risk-Taker
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From Athens to Jerusalem: From Balanced Personality to Passionate Risk-Taker
Rebbe Mordechai (Marc) Gafni serves as Dean of Melitz Beit Midrash in Jerusalem.
Matthew Arnold, writing in his celebrated work Culture and Anarchy, suggests that Hebraism and Hellenism are the two essential philosophies of life between which civilized man must choose. For Arnold, Hebraism is primarily a system of obedience to an external source (the Mosaic Law) while Hellenism advocates perfecting the self (as the Greeks did) by expanding our consciousness through culture. Chanukah is the tale of the clash between these two world visions, the clash between the Hebrew Maccabees and the Hellenist …
