Originally published in Gevuroth haromah: Jewish studies offered at the eightieth birthday of Rabbi Moses Cyrus Weiler. Ed. Ze’ev W. Falk (Jerusalem: Mesharim, 1987), xvii-xxxi [Engl. section]. Republished in L. Jacobs. Judaism and Theology: Essays on the Jewish Religion (London; Portland, OR: Vallentine, Mitchell, 2005), 102-16. An attempt is made in this essay to…