Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Brakhot 7 - Ⓐnarchy

There was one point at which I wrote an extensive paper on the role that anarchism plays in Jewish texts. It focused less on any particular political expression of 'anarchism' per se, but rather on the fact that many Jewish thinkers have rejected the idea of human government as deeply flawed, and wanted to  live in a society in which the only King was God. This quote from today's daf is further great evidence of this underlying distrust/dislike of human authority:


At the time when the sun rises and all the kings of the East and West put their crowns upon their heads and bow down to the sun, the Holy One, blessed be He, becomes at once angry.

1 comment:

  1. Interesting point Adam, I noticed that the action of kings seems particularly angering to God. A big comment on the responsibility of power.

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