September 12, 2010
Fast of Gedalia: Then and Now
Alexander Kaye
Alexander Kaye is the Tikvah Post-Doctoral Fellow in Jewish Thought at Princeton University. He received his BA and MPhil in history from the University of Cambridge, his PhD in Jewish history from Columbia University, and rabbinical ordination from Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School. He was formerly the Assistant Rabbi at Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun in New York.
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The Fast of Gedalia mourns the extinguishing of the last ember of Jewish leadership in the Kingdom of Judah. How could the death of one person measure up against the destruction of all of Jerusalem and the Temple? Part of the Stanley Rudoff Memorial High Holy Day Lecture Series.