Isaac Abravanel, a 15th century scholar, reveals a cornerstone of Jewish life and practice through an insightful question about this…
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I vividly remember the first time I encountered Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors.I couldn’t have been more than 15 or 16, and…
The Journey, and Not the Destination This oft-utilized but incisive axiom finds, perhaps, its origins in this week’s Torah portion,…
What a dynamic relationship we humans have with rules and order. We crave boundaries and containers into which we can…
“The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant….
Who has access to God? This question looms large at the start of Parashat Bo (Exodus 10:1-13:16), in which Moses…
We know the story, or at least, we know the major detail: God speaks to Moses from a Burning Bush….
Pharaoh was, fortunately for the early Hebrews, not a brilliant military strategist. He recognized the threat that a numerous population…
On his deathbed, Jacob gathers family around in his final effort to share a vision of the legacy he will…
“With that he embraced his brother Benjamin around the neck and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck” (Genesis 45:14). This…