Julian Ungar-Sargon
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Episodes
Letting Go of the Sheretz in the Mikvah
Art by Salome Worch
Covenant and Dispensation
All Is Not Fair in Love and War
Listening as Witnessing
The Prince and the Beautiful Wench
The Fixing Of The Gaze
TSHUOS CHEN: Tisha B'Av Torah
Vows Vs. Oaths
In order to have that degree of control over the future, man must first learn to distinguish between what happens by accident and what by design . . . and before he can do this, man himself will really have to become reliable, regular, necessary, even in his own self-image, so that he, as someone making a promise is, is answerable for his own future! Nietzsche The lies we tell, stories we sell to keep this love alive. Truth betrays what we say in order to survive. What emotions shed are easily m...
Vav Ketiya: The Brokenness of Pinchas
Bala'am's Monocular Vision
The Good Sin
Channah's Prayer and Korach
Joshua's (Mis)naming
The Messengers Return from Canaan- Giovanni Lanfranco (1582 – 1647)
The Broken Zaddik
David's Punishment
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The Netziv's Theory of Human Agency
The Long Trajectory of the Word "NAVI"
Finding seal marks ostensibly from Isaiah the Prophet and Hezekiah within mere feet of each other in Jerusalem is intriguing; so are other seals of other non-visionary Isaiahs found in Israel from that time… A 2,700-year-old seal impression on clay unearthed in Jerusalem leads on to the history of the word NAVI. Supplementary Text...
Abigail's Cunning
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The Hidden Treasure In The Leprous House
In describing the tzaraat that afflicted the home, the Torah says: “When you come to the land of Canaan, which I am giving you as a possession, and I place an affliction of tzaraat upon a house in the land of your possession.” The Midrash teaches that from the words of the verse we learn that G‑d Himself placed the affliction of tzaraat on the house, so it was in fact a blessing. For when the Israelites removed the afflicted stones from their homes, they discovered treasures that the native Cana...
Darosh Darash Moshe: The Hinge Upon Which The Torah Opens
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The Pipes To Hell
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