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Today, we're focusing on a small but powerful passage from chapter 4. The Book of Jubilees tells us that in the fifteenth jubilee period – a "jubilee" being a period of 49 years – ...
The Book of Judith, a story found in the Apocrypha, tells of a brave and pious Jewish woman who saves her people from the Assyrian general Holofernes. But before she steps into her...
That’s the space Tobiyyah and Sarah find themselves in in the Book of Tobit. Imagine this: you’re newly married, but your spouse has a bit of a history. A history of… seven dead hu...
Isn't it amazing to consider the different ways people organize their societies, and how those structures reflect their deepest beliefs? : what could be a more sacred form of gover...
The ancient rabbis certainly did. They grappled with the nature of prophecy: who gets it, and why? Philo of Alexandria, a Jewish philosopher living in Egypt around the time of Jesu...
It's like we're trying to soften the blow, to create a little distance between the person and the negative action. Well, it turns out this isn't just a quirk of human interaction; ...
to a fascinating interpretation found in The Midrash of Philo. Philo, a Jewish philosopher living in Alexandria around the time of Jesus, wasn't afraid to think outside the box. He...
Philo, a Jewish philosopher living in Alexandria around the time of Jesus, offers a unique allegorical interpretation of the Torah. And in this particular midrash, number 16, he ta...
The verse in question, from Genesis 6:13, states that "all things which existed upon the earth shall be consumed." But why? The text grapples with this apparent injustice. One expl...
