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Gershon HepnerThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
The Deuteronomic prohibition in the Tenth Commandment of lo tahmod, not to covet what tempts the eyes, explains the primal sin which Adam, helped...
The reason God, upset by Sarah’s laughter when she learned that she would have a baby boy when she like Abraham was old, asked him why Sarah had...
It seems terrestrial molecules are all left-handed. Nature rules: amino acids have to favor left-handedness, which is the flavor that it...
“Why do you ruin all my years?” Forlorn is this lament that we associate with aging. In Yiddish vos dergeystu mir di yorn? sounds far less...
Promptly following the fall of the Bastille, the Earl of Exeter, who all the works of French Encyclopédistes and Voltaire had previously enjoyed, ...
Seventh inning, sukkah lubber, happens on Hoshanah Rabbah. Hit the esrog for a homer, singing qol m’bha’seyr o’mer, whacking weeping...
The shelter sukkot have to give is temporary, so that they must be literally ex tempore, not permanent like residences where we live the rest...
A failure, Bernard Shaw declared, can be more interesting than a success. A failure happens when you’ve dared to act in ways that although they are...
Though designated like pius Aeneas to become survivors of the horrendous Hellenistic holocaust of Troy, many Jews no longer see themselves as...
Finding nothing in the whole world in common with himself, Kafka asked why men seemed to expect him to resemble any of his kin or kith or other...