On Yeshayahu Leibowitz’s Birthday, Let’s Remember To Be Suspicious

Today Jan 29, is the birthday of Yeshayahu Leibowitz, the late Israeli Orthodox Jewish thinker and agent provocateur. I’ve been reading his weekly Torah commentary, Accepting The Yoke of Heaven. The parsha of Veyechi, which passed just before the New Year started, tells of Jacob’s death, while it’s haftarah tells of King David’s death. Leibowitz’ bold and typically prophetic words on the difference between the two deaths struck me with particular force. First, though, who was the now largely forgotten Leibowitz? Leibowitz was an esteemed Israeli intellectual who won the Israel Prize, Israel’s highest civilian honor, in 1993 (then refused the prize). He was a professor of biochemistry, organic chemistry and neurophysiology at Hebrew University where he taught for nearly six decades. <a href="https://matthewzgindin.medium.com/on-yeshayahu-liebowitz-upcoming-birthday-let-s-remember-to-be-suspicious-917c0a7fe1ba">Click Here</a>