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Friday, August 1st 2025
SHABBAT READING The Torah Is Sanctioned by God: In the Footsteps of the Abravanel: Rabbi Avi Weiss, The Torah.com, Feb. 9, 2023 — The Book of Deuteronomy poses a unique challenge for those who believe that God authored the Torah: It is presented as an address by Moses! This includes the book’s many laws, which […]
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Eli Herb Times of Israel, July 29, 2022 “From a mythic perspective, the book of Job is not even trying to answer a theological question. As a text, it leaves us with the same age-old problem: we don’t know why there is suffering but we know it sucks.” How did the book of Job […]
Atar Hadari Mosaic, July 31, 2014 “And every time I carry the bag to Jerusalem or anywhere else, I think about Mrs. al-Faroukhi and that sunset, about what we carry with us, and about what baggage is. And so far God has answered my prayer, and my Jerusalem is not destroyed. I do believe […]
Mark Raven Commentary, August 1951 “Are we as sure now as were the early reformers that a preoccupation with the suffering and longing of the past has little significance for a people as advanced and emancipated as we have become? Is the future so assured, so firmly based on the progress of science and […]
Jonathan Lieberman Jerusalem Post, August 16, 2024 “… history teaches that the Jewish people have faced seemingly insurmountable challenges before and have prevailed.” I am writing this immediately after Tisha B’Av. The saddest day in the Jewish calendar, a day when we commemorate every tragedy that has ever occurred to our People – and there […]
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