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Reviewing the Meaning of Midrash, Part 1
Torah, like any wisdom, has departments. That’s important to know. You can’t study literature the same way you study biology, and you can’t critique poetry as you would journalism. So too, you can’t...
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Sermon Review of the Holy Epistle to the Hebrews: Ten Testimonies
In the first two chapters of the Epistle to the Hebrews, the writer of the epistle employs ten proof texts drawn from the Torah, the Prophets, and the Writings to make his case that Messiah is more...
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Book Review: Mishnah and the Words of Jesus
Midrash is the art of keeping an ancient text alive. The Rabbis were masters of drawing water from stone, of transforming the most mundane passages of Torah into luminous nuggets of spirituality....
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Reviewing the Meaning of Midrash: Part 3
We’re used to considering the precise measurements of our world as the final arbiter of all truth. It might help to jump to an event in Mezhibuzh, Ukraine, a century or two after Maharal: …One of the...
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Reviewing the Meaning of Midrash: Part 4
Heaven forbid we should tell a child an untruth! It is a Jewish custom, and a Jewish custom is also Torah—the Torah of truth. Everything the child is told is true: Those who throw the candies are doing...
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Reviewing the Meaning of Midrash: Part 5
We’ve explained why midrash and aggadah are so vital to our Torah diet. We’ve explained that these stories speak to us from a higher plane of reality. And we’ve also demonstrated that even if you don’t...
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David’s Fallen Tent in the Wilderness
The Torah states: “And the Almighty spoke to Moshe in the wilderness of Sinai” (Numbers 1:1). Why does the Torah specify “the wilderness” of the Sinai desert? It would have been sufficient to say “in...
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Seeking God in His Creation
When God began to create heaven and earth… –Genesis 1:1 (JPS Tanakh) Without meaning in life even if you accomplish very much, have health and wealth, fame and fortune, there is a strong feeling that...
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Is There a Sukkah for Christians?
Then it will come about that any who are left of all the nations that went against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to celebrate the Feast of Booths....
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Reviewing the Meaning of Midrash, Part 1
Torah, like any wisdom, has departments. That’s important to know. You can’t study literature the same way you study biology, and you can’t critique poetry as you would journalism. So too, you can’t...
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