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The Theology of ‘Jurassic Park’

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Jurassic Park photoViewing Spielberg’s 1993 sci-fi classic through the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s lens…
The characters in Jurassic Park probably wouldn’t find much common ground with the Rebbe’s science, but the film and Chabad nonetheless share a number of preoccupations: messianic figures, the revival of the dead, and the creation of heaven on earth….

Read full article at Tablet Magazine

Photos by aussiegall,

(via Washington Jewish Film Festival)

 

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