Rediscovering The Nativity Story: Where And When?
As Christmas draws near, I would like to say a few words about this wonderful time of a year. Yes, we all know that the origins of Christmas cannot be traced back…
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We Came To Drive Away The Darkness (hanukkah Song)
WHERE IS THE MIRACLE? Today we continue our Hanukkah reflections. Last time, we followed the narrative of the First book of Maccabees, which recounts the events that Hanukkah commemorates. We saw that,…
We Came To Drive Away The Darkness (hanukkah Song)
Last year, Christmas and Hanukkah fell on the same day and therefore we didn’t have a chance to discuss Hanukkah at length and separately: last year, my Hanukkah post on this blog was…
Pardes: Abram And Sarai In Egypt (sod)
My dear readers, every time I use the PARDES technique, applying it to a particular Scripture text, I always tremble in excitement and anticipation when I reach the final level – SOD,…
Pardes: Abram And Sarai In Egypt (2)
REMEZ Last time, we started to analyze the very controversial story of Abram’s going down to Egypt, in Genesis 12. We began to apply to this episode, four levels of Jewish Biblical…
