Science uses careful, organized observations and tests to construct theories that are recorded, passed on to others and built ...
The impossibility of conveying in ordinary Yiddish the experience of walking through the empty streets of one’s eradicated ...
Purim, therefore, is the prototype for Jewish survival during exile. The Divine Providence hidden in apparently random events has ensured that we have survived, and even thrived, in the face of ...
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The Megillah as a Rorschach test
Megillat Esther is a Rorschach test for Jews around the globe. We are going through different experiences, but Jews ...
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The Origins of Satan
It wasn’t until after the Babylonian exile that the idea of Satan as a cosmic villain began to emerge, likely influenced by Zoroastrian dualism. Later, Second Temple Jewish texts and early ...