
Texts
The texts presented here offer deeper reflections on themes explored through the institute’s activities. Some emerge from projects, seminars, and study programs, while others are written by lecturers, scholars, and invited contributors involved in the institute’s academic and cultural work. These texts provide context, interpretation, and further perspectives on the subjects addressed in our courses and gatherings, opening space for thoughtful engagement with Jewish texts, intellectual traditions, and contemporary questions.

By destroying another’s reality, we annihilate our own symbolic value.
In this essay, Prof. Haviva Pedaya reflects on destruction, exile, language, and symbolic life in Jewish history, moving from the fall of the Second Temple to the present. A text that invites reflection on power, violence, and the possibility of another political and moral horizon.

