We see a very sad thing in this week’s Parsha, Vayeira. A boy, Ishmael, is placed under a shrub, perhaps to die, because his mother and he had run out of water as they wandered the desert. His...
Remember Joseph? Yeah, the Technicolor Dreamcoat guy. He's one of twelve brothers, but you wouldn't really know it, 'cause, when he was young, the others threw him in a well...
Parshat Vayishlach is like a novel within the Torah about the life of Jacob. Why? Because unlike most ancient stories, the story of Jacob is a story of a character who changes. When we first met...
If you have a friend to help, it takes between five and ten minutes to roll a Torah scroll back from the end to the beginning. That's a lot longer than it takes to click from episode Vezot...
Moses, at 120 years old, has been informed that he is indeed about to die. So he sends the Levites to place the book of his final teachings next to the Tabernacle to bear witness against the...
Reading Parshat Terumah is like reading a furniture assembly manual in the original Swedish. It contains very technical instructions on how to construct God’s sanctuary and unless you took woodshop...
Here we have what I like to think of as a novel within the Torah about the life of Jacob. I think of it as a novel because unlike most ancient literature, the story of Jacob is a story of a character...
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The original impulse behind the book was a recognition I have had that there are very many people who don't really enjoy what they do or perhaps even how they live. They don't enjoy...