The text says Deuteronomy was lost, but you say it was written then.

My father was a Social Gospel, far-left liberal, and to some degree a mystic. But we did not have Bible readings; we had prayers.

I have a concordance to the Talmud at home, which I have to use.

If one attempts to achieve deity or to have the holy, he is thrown back; he is refused. His language is taken from him. He can no longer even communicate. That's the Tower of Babel.

We want to live in ambiguity. This is the human condition.

I would not speak of Judaism as a Talmudic or Rabbinic religion. It's a Biblical religion.

The Hebrew Bible defines Judaism. It's certainly true that the Talmudic interpretations become authoritative and normative, but they are interpretations of the Hebrew Bible. So that is always there.