Polly Want Dignity: Commentary on Parashat Ki Tetze 5784
…forget that the scrambled eggs I cook are rooted in the biological realities of poultry. The eggs did not just come from somewhere, and the eggs did not just come…
…forget that the scrambled eggs I cook are rooted in the biological realities of poultry. The eggs did not just come from somewhere, and the eggs did not just come…
…chosen people (a concept that has been removed or modified in many non-Orthodox Jewish communities today). This notion of Jewish chosenness would compete with the increasingly popular 16th century belief…
…chosen people (a concept that has been removed or modified in many non-Orthodox Jewish communities today). This notion of Jewish chosenness would compete with the increasingly popular 16th century belief…
…questioned the sufficiency of this form of proof in his Gur Aryeh commentary, composed near the end of the 16th century. Commenting on Genesis 45:12, Rabbi Löwe wrote, “הרבה יש…
…questioned the sufficiency of this form of proof in his Gur Aryeh commentary, composed near the end of the 16th century. Commenting on Genesis 45:12, Rabbi Löwe wrote, “הרבה יש…
…us from believing though that experiencing God is in any way an experience for the elite or must be complicated. Where is the site of religious enlightenment? Deuteronomy 30:12 answers:…
…“God will surely take notice”) is utilized—here as a descriptor, but more commonly as a command. In her commentary on the parsha, Rabbi Jill Hammer describes Joseph as the one…
How To Be a Blessing (On Election Day): Commentary on Parashat Lekh Lekha 5783 By Rabbi Jonah Rank, President & Rosh Yeshivah of Hebrew Seminary I am lucky that, when…
…in his native Land of Israel, Rabbi Chayyim Yosef David Azulai (1724–1806) paused between his adventures to author, among other works, his Torah commentary Chomat Anakh, composed during the last…
…free in the United States, Harper committed much of her literary and activist efforts to the abolitionist movement; she recognized just how deeply slavery had stained the moral fabric of…