The Yale Jewish Lives series, which has volumes devoted to figures as diverse as Harry Houdini and Henrietta Szold, had a conspicuous gap in its library: an account of the first Jewish life. In the ...

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Then suddenly, each person’s ego—the desire to enjoy at the expense of others—began to grow rapidly, as symbolized by the story of the Tower of Babel. This saw the emergence of destructive competition ...