It is the deep, reverberating question at the heart of Toldot. Why did Rebecca tell Jacob to deceive Isaac and take Esau’s blessing? Her instruction is brisk and peremptory:“Now, my son, lis ...
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The Nobel Prize-winning British physicist Roger Penrose certainly fits the template. Even so, Patchen Barss’s absorbing biography, “The Impossible Man,” is not a voyeuristic freak show.