Episode 54 Sun, Moon, and the Jewish New Year

The joining of lunar and solar on the Jewish calendar reveals the complexity of Judaism itself.
Text: Deuteronomy 12-16
The joining of lunar and solar on the Jewish calendar reveals the complexity of Judaism itself.
Text: Deuteronomy 12-16
The unique biblical approach to monarchy and the Jewish New Year.
A tree in the Judean desert embodies a biblical verse about trees like nothing else on earth.
A famous phrase from Sherlock Holmes provides us with a metaphor for key biblical commandments.
A prayer by a boy who survived Buchenwald captures the nature of the Jewish covenant.
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