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That feeling isn't new. Our ancestors wrestled with it too, and the ancient text Sifrei Devarim (a commentary on the Book of Deuteronomy) speaks directly to this. It quotes Deutero...
The text paints a rather unflattering portrait of the Israelites, calling them "hafachpechanim" – turncoats, those who are inconsistent – and "runabouts." Ouch. But it gets even mo...
The text starts with a rather striking image: "With a nation, naval, I shall anger them." Now, "naval" might seem like a strange word choice. The text quickly clarifies: these are ...
There's a fascinating passage there that plays with the Hebrew language to reveal a profound truth about the resilience of the Jewish people. The passage focuses on a verse that sp...
The ancient rabbis grappled with this feeling, particularly when thinking about the exiles of the Jewish people. They found echoes of this isolation, this sense of being utterly ab...
It's easy to get caught up in the moment, to think that the way things are now is how they'll always be. But Jewish tradition encourages us to look deeper, to see the hand of somet...
The ancient rabbis wrestled with that feeling too, especially when considering the relationship between Israel and the other nations. We find a powerful, raw expression of this in ...
We find ourselves wrestling with this very question in Sifrei Devarim 325, an ancient commentary on the Book of Deuteronomy. The text grapples with the idea of divine retribution, ...
It's woven right into the fabric of our stories, even in the most sacred texts. to a tiny verse that packs a big punch: Deuteronomy 32:37. The verse reads, "And he will say: Where ...
