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The Year Passover Died

25.04.2024 20

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Review of the movie ‘Solomon’

31.03.2024 20

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A fascinating and informative examination of 35 Aesop Fables

04.03.2024 20

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The Crowd Instinct and Power

26.02.2024 30

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Ethics of Our Fathers

08.02.2024 10

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Does God Know Us?

Famous Jewish philosophers had conflicting views about prophecy and divine providence. People can accept or reject their views. Many Jews are...

29.10.2023 10

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Who was Abraham?

The Torah does not clarify much about the patriarch Abraham. Much is obscure. This is good. It prompts us to think. And when we think, we learn. And...

23.10.2023 20

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The Biblical Flood and the Gilgamesh Myth

There are remarkable similarities between the biblical story of the flood and the more ancient version of Gilgamesh. The Babylonian epic Gilgamesh was...

16.10.2023 10

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Ancient brutalities

The Odyssey Translated by Emily Wilson  I read another translation of “The Odyssey” in the past and found it interesting. Now, I read and...

15.10.2023 4

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Are the ‘miracles’ in the Elijah and Elisha tales natural events?

There is a greater concentration of miracles in the Elijah and Elisha stories in the biblical book Kings than in the Exodus tales.[1] Are all of them...

27.09.2023 20

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What does “Man of God” mean?

The biblical book Kings describes the Deity as Y-h-v-h, as did the Five Books of Moses. It also calls the Deity Elohim, generally translated as...

22.09.2023 20

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Two witnesses prove God exists

The weekly portion of Haazinu ( chapter 32), the penultimate Torah’s ending, is “The Song.” In it, because he realizes the significance of his...

18.09.2023 7

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A Digest of Judaism

II Kings 4 describes a troubled woman who discovers her son has died. She rushes to leave her home and seeks help from the prophet Elisha. Her husband...

14.09.2023 8

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