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Yosef B. MoranThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
When the Mountain Stays the Hand and the Laws Hold the World Without Our Understanding Them The mountain does not tremble. No one runs. There is no...
Power without accountability, allies without an exit, and a system that no longer obeys anyone There’s a real difference between talking like an...
We are no longer living in the age in which programming is defined primarily by writing code. That age is ending. For decades, the centre of the craft...
The Form That Sustains the Presence Emor does not begin with a dramatic scene. There is no flight, no fire, no cry. It begins almost dryly, with an...
The New Shemot of Consciousness Yesterday, after programming, I started watching an online conference on AI. I listened to several presentations, and...
After the fire, form weighs I write this from a threshold — not from a place, but from an interior point at which one notices that not everything...
For years we built software the way you build a building. First the walls, then the rooms, then the corridors that tell people where to walk. The...
When the Body Speaks and the Self Returns The Torah does not begin with ideas. It begins with blood. With opened flesh. With visible fragility....
Imposing is not negotiating There is a confusion that needs clearing up from the outset: pressure is not diplomacy. They are different things, and...
Why the Jews Said “We Will Do” Before “We Will Understand” There is a scene in Exodus that modern exegesis often passes over too quickly. At...
There are political mistakes. There are strategic miscalculations. And then there is that particular kind of stupidity which dresses itself up as...
What is becoming visible across different countries today does not return in the shape of classical fascism. It does not necessarily march in...
When Presence Breaks In, the Body Trembles ✦ ✡ ✦ It is the eighth day. The one that breaks the rhythm. Until now everything had been...
Systemic Collapse, Global Interdependence, and the Lesson of 1200 BC Some 3,200 years ago, the most advanced world of its time collapsed within the...
Each year, at Passover, Jews gather to tell the story of liberation. We speak of Pharaoh, of oppression, of fear, and of the long road out of Egypt....
Why certain conflicts remain unintelligible to those outside them Conflicts are usually explained in terms such as interests, strategy, or political...
When the Fire No Longer Depends on You The fire was already there — before Aharon, before the gesture, before the song. It burned. Not because...
There is something strange at the beginning of this book. The very word — Vayikra, “And He called” — is written with a small alef in the...
When Silence Becomes Architecture and Precision Becomes Dwelling After the calf there are no shouts. No fire. No punishment. There is work. Moshe...
In 2026 no one waits in silence. When something hurts, a screen lights up; when something frightens, a message is sent; when something feels empty, it...
Parashat Ki Tisa — WHEN THE SOUL BREAKS THE COVENANT — AND YET RETURNS Moses does not come down. The days pass, the cloud remains, the mountain...
Decapitation as an Accelerator: Why Killing an Ideological Leader Rarely Weakens the System I advance the following thesis: The elimination of an...
A woman works in a public hospital. In a saturated city. Long shifts. Crowded corridors. Screens glowing. Constant alarms. Everything runs. Everything...
There is a kind of fidelity that cannot be seen. It does not appear in photographs. It does not generate stories. It receives no applause. It exists...
The Mishkan still smells of fresh wood, that scent where what is new and what is unfinished mingle, promise without pulse, form without breath. The...
Designing Editorial Freedom in the Age of AI Everything began one afternoon, not with a breakthrough, but with a quiet realisation. I had just...
PARASHAH TERUMAH 2026 — WHEN A HOME BECOMES A DWELLING A man lives alone in a small flat. In a city that never sleeps. He works in front of a...
There comes a moment when simply complying is no longer enough. You have done what is right. You have walked straight. You have repaired mistakes. And...
PARASHAH TERUMAH — WHEN THE INVISIBLE TAKES FORM The echo of Sinai still vibrates in the air. The words remain hot. The law burns in the blood. The...
When One Intelligence Is No Longer Enough We were building a local voice assistant. Not a cloud chatbot, but a real system running on Linux: a...
Parashah Mishpatim 2026 — When Justice Is Negotiated in Silence In 2026, no one forces you to be unjust. They make it comfortable. There are no...