SHABBAT READING:
The Building Blocks of Biblical Interpretations: Text, Lexicon, and Grammar: Prof. Marc Zvi Brettler, The Torah.com, Aug 3, 2015 — Much of TheTorah.com focuses on big issues, such as the composition and the historical background of biblical texts. But it is only possible to explore those issues once we know what the biblical text itself reads, and once we understand the meaning of its words and know its grammar. This is more difficult than meets the eye. This difficulty is exacerbated for the non-specialist by the nature of the available tools, i.e., the standard scholarly critical Bibles, grammars, and lexica. These often complex and convoluted works are composed for insiders and mostly unsuitable for the uninitiated.
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Hizbullah is Cornered and Struggling to Admit Defeat: Yoni Ben Menachem, Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, Aug. 10, 2025
After the Failed Ceasefire with Lebanon, What’s Next?: Jacques Neriah, Israel Today, July 27, 2025
Lebanon Takes a First Step Toward Reclaiming Its Sovereignty: Edward Gabriel, The Hill, Aug. 13
Exclusive: US Plan Sees Hezbollah Disarmed by Year-End, Israeli Withdrawal: Laila Bassam Reuters, Aug. 7, 2025
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FOR FURTHER REFERENCE
Hezbollah Chief Threatens ‘No Life’ In Lebanon If Government Goes After Terror Group’s Arms: Noa Lutzky, Ynet, Aug. 15, 2025 — Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem warned the Lebanese government on Friday against confronting the terror group, and threatened that there would be “no life” in Lebanon.
The Quite War to Disarm Hezbollah: Valeria Rando, Now Lebanon, May 31, 2025 — It seemed that a formal ceasefire and the election of another President of the Republic would have been enough to return to imagining Lebanon as a united country: as a nation. But the age-old dispute between communities – political rather than religious, between their symbols, their ambitions, their alliances – has once again returned to prove that, until we can agree on which the occupying enemy is and what are the appropriate means to confront it, not only liberation – but the imagination of that liberation – will remain no more than a rhetorical, insubstantial quirk, to be celebrated every May 25.
Disarming Hezbollah Is Key To Lebanon’s Recovery − But The Task Is Complicated By Regional Shifts, Ceasefire Violations: The Conversation, May 15, 2025 — Within a span of two weeks from late April to early May 2025, Israel launched two aerial attacks ostensibly targeting Hezbollah in Lebanon: The first, on April 27, struck a building in Beirut’s southern suburbs; the second, an assault in southern Lebanon, left one person dead and eight others injured.
Top Iranian Official Visits Lebanon as Hezbollah Bucks Calls to Disarm: Euan Ward, NY Times, Aug. 13, 2025 — A top Iranian security official met with Lebanese leaders on Wednesday as pressure mounted for its most powerful regional ally, Hezbollah, to disarm.