Rosenzweig and Weil Are Dead

December 31, 2016 by Rabbi Francis Nataf

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* Franz Rosenzweig studied in several of Germany's top universities prior to World War I. He declined, however, to take on a professorial position, as he became progressively more interested in Judaism. After serving in the German army, he devoted the last decade of his life to Jewish thought and Jewish education. He is most famous for his seminal Star of Redemption and for his work together with Martin Buber in the writing of a new German translation of the Bible. Though highly independent in his thinking, Rosenzweig became Jewishly observant.

** Simone Weil studied in the bastions of the French intellectual elite, including the Ecole Normale Superiere, where her brilliance as well as her eccentricity became known to her peers and her teachers alike. She aligned herself with the French radical left, involving herself in teaching and manual labor. In the late thirties, she turned towards religion, which quickly became the center of her life and her philosophical writings, the most famous of which being her poem, The Iliad or the Poem of Force. Pope Paul VI, among many others, is said to have seen Weil as one of the greatest influences on his intellectual development.

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