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The melekh does not actually rule over Israel but rather embodies the mission and aspirations of his nation to the extent that he becomes a microcosm of the entire Jewish people and his personal identity is absorbed into Israel’s collective national identity.
I found her in a shepherd’s vale With lilies twined up in her hair I asked her what had brought her there and she…
Through a heightened awareness of Israel’s true inner essence, we can see past the sharp ideological divisions and appreciate the intrinsic unity beneath and beyond our surface disputes.
I wonder what those future archaeologists will think of these derelict towers and rusted iron smokestacks jutting from the ancient earth and what stories…
I am haunted by those old gods Odin, Zeus, Osiris as shadow and blood rippling through my genes ephemeral rifts in my body’s memory…
Upon a surface reading of the text, Aharon appears to have lacked the readiness for ultimate sacrifice.
Handcuffs, battered face blooded nose and blazing eyes a proud brow, the snarling head of lions, ripping havoc into the tails of foxes to…
The notion of giving everything to HaShem illustrates the difference between the mentality of redemption and that of the exile.
Before Rome destroyed Jerusalem, Israel’s calendar had several festivals commemorating Maccabean victories. The story of our 26 year guerrilla war is actually so much bigger than just Ḥanukah.
Israel being a ‘kingdom of priests and a holy nation’ necessitates the sanctification of individual, interpersonal and national life so as to give earthly expression to the Torah’s lofty spiritual values.
Sparrows clipped like clothespins to the hoary bramble sprawling between the bars of sun-bleached iron industrial grey and gentle slate to them the melding…
The Torah is not a ‘religion’ relegated to the houses of study or prayer. Nor is it a set of rules meant to coercively modify human behavior.