Parashat Lekh-Ləkha: אֵלוֹן | eilon
In which I learn what a terebinth is, and also why it’s not worth spending much time figuring out what a terebinth is.
Read MoreParashat Nó’aḥ: אֲרָרָט | ararat
The Biblical flood story and a Roman flood myth both happen to use the same word. What a fun coincidence . . . or is it?
Read MoreParashat Bəreishit: בְּרִאשִׁית | bəreishit
How does the book of Genesis begin? In this first installment of One Word Torah, I take a deep dive into the first word of the Bible and wend my way thru questions of meaning, bias, and Biblical scholarship.
Read MoreBugs and Prisms (One Word Torah: Introduction)
In 5785, I want to get my insect on. I want to take a bug’s eye view of Torah and spend each week focused on the nuts and bolts of the actual text of this strange and multi-layered document. I think this will open the door to some interesting and deep questions, questions that are different, perhaps, than the questions prism analysis leads to, but questions that are no less meaningful for that.
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