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As yesterday’s newsletter mentioned, Saturday’s Torah reading tells the story of the Gentile prophet Balaam. William Kolbrener, in this brief video, analyzes Rembrandt van Rijn’s painting of a scene from this story, comparing it to some of the artist’s other biblical works, noting the attention both Rembrandt and the rabbis pay to sight and blindness, and observing how Rembrandt “lets the Jewish Bible speak.” For more on the subject, see Kolbrener’s brief essay here, as well as Rabbi Meir Soloveichik’s analysis of the same painting in Mosaic.