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On the figure of Job, who according to one Talmudic opinion lived in Canaan during the time of the Spies, to explore faith and acceptance in the face of suffering. Job's journey from protest to...
The Sedra's civil laws as expressing both rational and suprarational dimensions of Jewish teaching. The insight is that the name Mishpatim points to the way even rational human law, when rooted in...
The meaning of the Sedra's name Mishpatim, rational civil laws, asking what place they have alongside the more mysterious Chukim. The insight is that even the rational laws have a dimension beyond...
On the primordial light created on the first day of Creation, which the Sages say was too holy for our world and was concealed. The insight, drawing on the Lubavitcher Rebbe, is that this radiance...
The many-layered meanings of the Golden Menorah, the seven-branched candlestick in the Sanctuary, drawing on the teaching that every word of Torah has seventy facets. The insight is that the Menorah...