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James Ponet

James Ponet is Yale’s Howard M. Holtzmann Jewish Chaplain emeritus and a lecturer at Yale Divinity School.

Awe and Joy

James Ponet

S. Y. Agnon curated a stunning anthology of Jewish texts, published later in English as Days of Awe. In his introduction to the anthology, the eminent scholar Judah Goldin grappled with the idea of awe—and so does this author.