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Tuesday, August 13th 2024
Prof. Rabbi Marty Lockshin The Torah.com, July 31, 2022 “ … at times, the voices in Lamentations interrupt each other within the same verse.[19] According to this Talmudic interpretation cited by Rashi, God would be the one interrupting here, but, as Greenstein writes, the one voice that is conspicuously absent from the book of Lamentations […]
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Saul J. Singer Jewish Press, Aug. 7, 2024 “As the sun set over Jerusalem the Golden reunited at last, Jews of all backgrounds and ethnicities gathered at the Wall on Tisha B’Av for the first time in two millennia. Sitting on the hallowed ground holding small candles, they participated in thousands of small minyanim […]
Monday, April 22nd 2024
Rabbi Dr. Norman Solomon The Torah.com, Mar. 15, 2024 “I hope that, just as we welcome all four ‘sons’ to our table and read to each according to his needs, we can also welcome all four readers, and take from each according to our needs, and the needs of our generation.” You don’t have to be a […]
Isranet Daily Briefing
Friday, March 22nd 2024
SHABBAT READING Purim: Mocking Persia’s Dat and Reaccepting the Torah: Rachel Friedman, The Torah.com, May 3, 2023 — The book of Esther centers on the action and intrigue at the royal court of King Ahasuerus in the Persian capital of Shushan (Susa), repeatedly calling attention to its silliness and eccentricities.[1] Nowhere does the Persian court appear more […]
Friday, March 22nd 2024 / Thursday, March 21st 2024
Philologos Mosaic Magazine, Mar. 16, 2023 “Hamas, however, is not a people. It is an organization. And when Netanyahu compared it to Amalek, he was calling for the extermination of an organization every last one of whose combatants Israel does want to see dead and with good reason.” “The word Amalek is now as common as […]
Rabbi Haim Jachter Jewish Link, Mar. 7, 2024 “… the Jews took the necessary steps to defend themselves in a situation in which they were in mortal danger. Moreover, the Jews defended themselves in a measured and disciplined manner.” Some critics wrongly label our self-defense on the 13th of Adar as a massacre. This […]
Yoram Hazony Commentary Magazine, March 2016 “Strength attracts strength, and power attracts power. Thus the weak, to the degree they can make themselves seem strong, can attract the support of the strong, thereby becoming strong in reality.” As the book of Esther reaches its climax, the Jews of Persia have turned political defeat into political […]
Friday, September 22nd 2023 / Tuesday, October 31st 2023
SHABBAT READING Crimson to White: Yom Kippur’s Miraculous Thread: Dr. Rabbi Joshua Kulp, The Torah.com, Sept. 21, 2023 — Leviticus (ch. 16) describes a Yom Kippur ritual, known as the scapegoat, in which a goat is chosen by lottery to bear Israel’s iniquities, and is then sent into the wilderness as a way of […]
Thursday, September 14th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
Rabbi Moshe Hayim Efrayim of Sudilkov and Eitan P. Fishbane Jewish Review of Books, Fall 2019 “The sound of the shofar should—in a very precise theological sense—blast open the listener’s spiritual consciousness. Moreover, listening to the shofar should initiate or reinitiate an attitude of attentive wonder toward the world on the part of the Hasid, […]
Kate Roozansky Jewish Review of Books, Sept. 12, 2023 “After she gives him up, Hannah sings, “my horn (karni) exults in the Lord,” but her horn is only metaphorical—the boy is gone, there is no ram (1 Sam 2:1). Of course, Hannah visits Samuel at Shilo every year, but this means she also leaves […]
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks The Rabbi Sacks Legacy, September 2017 “The trouble is, of course, that faced with choice, we often make the wrong one.” The Ten Days of Repentance are the holy of holies of Jewish time. They begin this Wednesday evening with Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and culminate 10 days later with Yom Kippur, […]
Thursday, July 27th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
Mark Raven Commentary Magazine, August 1951 “It was the Jew’s burden—and still is—to turn over in his soul an insoluble problem of history: how could one people above all others become heir to such sorrow?” This August 12th will be celebrated as Tisha B’av—the ninth day of the Jewish month of Av—the second most […]
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