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Jewish tradition understands that feeling. Deeply. And it offers a lifeline. It's a lifeline we find in unexpected places – like the apocryphal Prayer of Manasseh. This short, powe...
It turns out, that feeling might be older than you think. to a fascinating piece of ancient Jewish thought that wrestles with just that—the heavy inheritance of sin. We're going to...
Jewish tradition explores that feeling in a fascinating way when it discusses Noah. The world was, to put it mildly, a mess. According to the Torah, humanity's wickedness had reach...
We're talking about the exact day, the precise number...it's all there for a reason. Take, for instance, the end of the Great Flood. Genesis 8:14 pointedly tells us, "the earth was...
And when Abraham was ninety years old and nine (Gen. 17:1). Scripture says elsewhere in reference to this verse: Thou art fairer than the children of man; grace is poured upon thy ...
It’s about a creature that is the size of a mountain... at least when it’s a baby! We're talking about the re'em. Now, the re'em is a fascinating beast. Think unicorn, or maybe rhi...
They say he was so strikingly handsome, he resembled an angel. And his story, well, it begins a bit like a fairy tale. His parents, you see, had longed for a child for many, many y...
You know the one – stretching all the way from earth to heaven, angels going up and down, up and down. He jolted awake and said, "In truth, the Glory of the Shekhinah dwells in thi...
to a fascinating idea from the great Kabbalist, Baal HaSulam, in his "Introduction to Zohar." Specifically, let's look at paragraph 42. He introduces us to the concept of five dist...
