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Dybbuks, demons and exorcism in Judaism

Rabbi Isaac Luria, one of the greatest of Jewish mystics, would walk in the hills of 16th century Safed and point out to his students the souls of the dead, often standing on their graves. In the same city at the same time, the great legal scholar Joseph Karo, author of the Shulchan Aruch, the great code of Jewish Law, was composing another book dictated to him by an angel.

Shalom Auslander is my failure

This doesn\’t answer my questions. It doesn\’t staunch my tears. I don\’t sleep better. I don\’t justify terrible things when they happen to others, and I don\’t know why they don\’t happen to me. But I know that just as surely as there is inexplicable evil in the world, there is inexplicable good, as well. It\’s something to put on the other side of the scale, something to attribute to a good God.

TV: Shoah makes searing mark in Ken Burns WWII documentary

\”We wanted to use four [American] towns as examples to get to know people — those who fought and those who stayed at home — and to get to their experiences as it happened.\”

The result is Burns and co-director Lynn Novick seeing the war as it was unfolding through the eyes of soldiers from Mobile, Ala.; Sacramento; Waterbury, Conn., and Luverne, Minn., to show, in so many ways, the ongoing hellishness of even a necessary war.

Books: Mailer scrutinizes evil in form of young Hitler

Power, politics and sex. War and violence. What more could he write about, you might well ask. Now, just turned 84, he has published \”The Castle in the Forest,\” which attempts to engage and scrutinize the nature of evil personified in the life of the young Adolf Hitler. He — Hitler as a youth — ostensibly is the subject of the novel.

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