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Friday, May 30th 2025
SHABBAT READING Hosea’s Abusive Marital Metaphor Ends with Courtship, Not Violence: Prof. Rabbi Tamara Cohn Eskenazi, The Torah.com, May 17, 2023 — One of the most confounding biblical depictions of marriage appears in Hosea 2:1–22, read as the Haftarah to the Torah portion of Bemidbar. On one hand it contains beautiful lines of YHWH, as […]
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Jeffery Levine, Times of Israel, May 30, 2025 As Shavuot approaches, our thoughts turn not only to the giving of the Torah and the Ten Commandments but also to the pressing moral questions of our time. This year, our hearts are heavy with the memory of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim—two staffers at the Israeli […]
Sarah Rindner Book of Books, June 3, 2024 The upcoming holiday of Shavuot evokes the receiving of the Torah on Har Sinai, flowers and greenery, and of course delicious dairy food. It is also the holiday of “malkhut,” or kingship, when we read the book of Ruth, which recounts the backstory behind the emergence […]
Shmuel Lubin The Lehrhaus, June 6, 2019 When it comes to the holiday of Shavuot, few questions are as famous as the one posed by Magen Avraham (494:1) on the problem of associating the holiday with the date of the Sinai revelation, the giving of the Torah. Based on his reading of a talmudic discussion in Shabbat (86b), […]
Prof. Sam Fleischacker The Torah.com, Nov. 4, 2013 Under Sinai or in the Jerusalem Square? The revelation at Sinai, as described in the Torah, provides an immensely appealing model of what it might be like for God to speak to us. We experience there uncanny thunder and lightning, perhaps synaesthetically, above which a voice […]
Dr. Tzvi Novick The Torah.com, May 27, 2020 Mutual Covenantal Responsibility at Sinai The famous rabbinic dictum has it that כל ישראל ערבים זה בזה “all Israelites are guarantors one for the other,” or in other words, that each is responsible to “pay” for the sin of the other.[1] But what is the extent of […]
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