Showing posts with label Torah. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Torah. Show all posts
Sunday, June 2, 2024

Law and Love

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Can we obey commands we don't understand? And if we do, is it a loss of independence, or is it a sign of love?  What is a chok ? The Tor...
Thursday, February 11, 2021

We will do what? And hear what?

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One of the most famous quotations from the Torah comes up in this week's parshah, Mishpatim. Most of the parshah focuses on the follow-u...
Sunday, February 7, 2021

Loving Words

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  When the Israelites stand before Mount Sinai, in Parshat Yitro, they are attracted and repelled by God's word. Attracted "All the...
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Tuesday, January 5, 2021

Sh'mot: From Names to Anomie, to Hearing the Name of God

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  What's in a name? Possibly, redemption. "Names" is the literal translation of Sh'mot , the Hebrew name of the second boo...
Thursday, December 24, 2020

Joseph: Brat, Brother, Authoritarian, All Too Human

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My teacher, Julius Lester , was appalled. "Joseph was not a brat," he stated. It was the 1980's, and I had met Julius at the ...
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Monday, October 5, 2020

Jews Aren't Perfect, and We Don't Have to Be

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Lots of Christians are puzzled by Jews. I hear it from them in many ways.  "What's your solution to sin?" a young woman asked ...
Saturday, December 5, 2015

Inheriting Abraham, by Jon D. Levenson

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Someone once said that the U.S. and the U.K. are two nations divided by a common language. We both speak English, but oh, the different wa...
Friday, May 16, 2014

"What's My Child Doing Up There?" ( an introduction to bar/bat mitzvah)

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There’s a lot of mystery around becoming bar or bat mitzvah, and there shouldn’t be.   In essence, it’s very simple.   When a Jewish bo...