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The Life and Death and Life of Moses
The way Jews celebrate their concluding the Torah testifies to the immortality of Moses.
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The Scriptural Stradivarius
A musical metaphor of the sages moves us to ponder the connection between scripture and…
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Repentance, Grade Inflation, and Self-Affirmation
The Jewish joining of free will and repentance is the key to the Torah's understanding…
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A Covenantal Kaddish at the Wall
A prayer by a boy who survived Buchenwald captures the nature of the Jewish covenant.
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The ‘Mind Attic’ of Sherlock Holmes and a Seder in Jerusalem
A famous phrase from Sherlock Holmes provides us with a metaphor for key biblical commandments.
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Masada and the Miracle of Methuselah
A tree in the Judean desert embodies a biblical verse about trees like nothing else…
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The King and Us
The unique biblical approach to monarchy and the Jewish New Year.
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Sun, Moon, and the Jewish New Year
The joining of lunar and solar on the Jewish calendar reveals the complexity of Judaism.
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The Survivors’ Tefillin
The preciousness of phylacteries to Jews in a DP camp captures the essence of these…
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The Tiny Chosen People
Moses’s discussion of Israel’s size inspires us to ponder the nature of chosenness.