If it’s possible to speak of a philosopher as being “hip,” then, in the Jewish world, that’s currently Emmanuel Levinas, famed for his modern Talmudic commentaries and works deriding the focus on the self at the expense of ethics. Levinas attempts to “translate Hebrew into Greek,” as he put it, and in this course, we will translate his own dense prose in order to understand what he meant by “totality,” “infinity” and what on earth all of this has to do with Judaism.