#ThouToo.
A literary-midrashic approach.
If Judaism’s idea of art is one that can truly represent our frail, fallible humanity, then Rembrandt, who captured faces “without any attempt to beautify them,” is the artist for Jews.
The body, the soul, and the Jewish culture of fertility.
Can you imagine the person who bathed you and put you to bed at night tying you up one day and holding a knife to your throat?
To know the mind of God we simply need to know what it is to be a parent.
Noah, Haran, and the Torah’s message for those who neither believe nor disbelieve.
How arguing with God became acceptable.
Greater than Abraham.
In memory of a great Jewish thinker.
Why did medieval rabbis leave so many hairs un-split?
How her fear and her mistreatment of Hagar the Egyptian helped forge the descendants of Abraham into a people, in a forge of 400 years.
One offered his daughters to the mob, the other his son to God.
News from the ruins in Tell el-Hammam in Jordan.