Tag: Aristotle

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Pita on Pesach: When Jewish Identity Dies, Jewish Blood Is Spilled

In the first part of this series, we established a foundational principle for survival: A is A. Drawing on sources that Aristotle learned from the Jewish prophets to the Creator’s own self-declaration of “Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh,” we argued that to deny the observable, empirical identity of our enemies is a

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A is A: Torah, Aristotle, and the Limits of Judging Enemies Favorably

After an Arab worker was recorded contaminating ice cream for Jewish customers, I commented that I always wondered about the people who run to bomb shelters, yet have no problem eating in restaurants with Arabs working there. A reader commented, "Tell me to which population you generalize when a, or