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Rabbi Levi’s Abraham passes the test because he remains sufficiently calm and clear-thinking to avert a misinterpretation that would have ended Isaac’s life.
It is possible to resist creeping fascism without assuming that it is genocide that we are fending off.
They envisioned you in an abundance of metaphors. You are one in all of those images. Shir Hakavod (12th-century Germany) How can you have a
From Jewish Spiritual Direction: An Innovative Guide from Traditional and Contemporary Sources, edited by Howard A. Addison and Barbara Eve Breitman (Jewish Lights, 2006)
From Torah Queeries, edited by David Shneer, Greg Drinkwater, and Joshua Lesser, New York University Press, 2009 When Ezra returned to Jerusalem from the Babylonian
One thing I ask.[1] And another thing: let my thyroid, please, function with sufficient vigor, lest days drift by without focus. And if I catch
Come, my beloved, let’s greet the source of blessing.[1] I recognized you during the fifth stanza. Your neck flushed red, and the hairs on mine
Come together that I may tell you what is to befall you in days to come.[1] You should have known. The ladder can be ascended
The book of Psalms says, “God supports all those who fall.” It doesn’t say, “God supports those who don’t fall.” In order to fall, you need to let go.
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