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Brief Lives

Nima Adlerblum (1881-1974)

Brad Rappaport looks at the life of a Jewish philosopher combatting the secular forces of modernism.

“The core of philosophy is in vision,” said Nima Adlerblum, whose own vision of philosophy was of it diverging among different peoples. Being Jewish herself, her particular interest was in Jewish philosophy. This she defined by its relationship to the Torah [the laws within Hebrew Scripture, and rabbinic elaboration upon it], and especially the Torah’s self-authenticating account – including saying that it was given to the Jews by God through Moses; that God chose the Hebrews (later, the Jews) to be His people; and that He gave them the land of Israel. These constituent elements of Judaism are woven together into an organic whole by the continuous practice of the Torah’s code of law from ancient times through to the present day. Adlerblum sticks to the Torah’s account, while at the same time criticizing religion understood as supernatural.

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