And they saw the God of Israel: Under His feet there was the likeness of a pavement of sapphire, like the very sky for purity.
—Exodus 24:10

A quarterly journal of ideas for a thriving Jewish future

Howard Jacobson

HOWARD JACOBSON is a novelist and essayist. In 2010, he won the Booker Prize for The Finkler Question. He lives in London.

The decline and fall of everything, including the inner man, has been a Jewish study since there was an everything to decline and fall