A Time for Apes and God: Commentary on Parashat Ki Tissa 5783
A Time for Apes and God: Commentary on Parashat Ki Tissa 5783
By Rabbi Jonah Rank, President and Rosh Yeshivah of Hebrew Seminary
When a few Jewish researchers exposed the resident apes at the Chimpanzee Human Communication Institute to a few ritual objects that epitomize the Passover seder, one chimp examined the maror and, in a chimpanzee dialect of American Sign Language, signed “BITTER CRY FOOD.”* […]