Parshat Lech Lecha

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God calls Abraham to leave his homeland for Canaan. Covers Abraham and Sarah in Egypt, the separation from Lot, the war of the kings, and the covenant between the pieces. Genesis 12:1-17:27.

Heart of Prayer

Apocrypha Letter of Aristeas 1:249

The Letter of Aristeas, a fascinating ancient text, gives us a glimpse into that very question. Imagine being a king, surrounded by advisors, each vying for your attention. But ins...

Prayer

Letter from Alexandria

Apocrypha Letter of Aristeas 1:251

It might surprise you. In the Letter of Aristeas, a fascinating text that purports to describe the creation of the Septuagint (the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible), we find l...

Prophecy

Letter from Alexandria and Ptolemy

Apocrypha Letter of Aristeas 1:259

King Ptolemy, a powerful ruler in his time, certainly did. He wasn't just interested in building grand things, but in building things that endured. He wasn't thinking small. In the...

Judgment

Ptolemy and the Rabbis

Apocrypha Letter of Aristeas 1:268

And the Letter of Aristeas, a fascinating ancient text, gives us a glimpse into just that kind of royal dilemma. The story goes that a king—presumably Ptolemy II Philadelphus, thou...

Death

Breath of Life

Apocrypha Letter of Aristeas 1:274

This wasn't just any translation; this was the creation of the Septuagint, a pivotal moment in Jewish history and its interaction with the Hellenistic world. But amidst this grand ...

Soul

Kingdom of Ptolemy Philadelphus and Greek

Apocrypha Letter of Aristeas 1:283

The Letter of Aristeas, a fascinating text that purports to describe how the Septuagint – the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible – came to be, gives us a glimpse into just such ...

SoulJudgment

Greek and Hebrew

Apocrypha Letter of Aristeas 1:289

The Letter of Aristeas, a fascinating text from the Hellenistic period, gives us some food for thought on just that. It recounts the story of how the Septuagint, the Greek translat...

Prophecy

Written and Oral Law of Philocrates

Apocrypha Letter of Aristeas 1:295

I’m talking about the kind of gathering described in the Letter of Aristeas, a text that purports to tell the story of how the Hebrew Bible was translated into Greek, creating the ...

TorahWisdom

Translating the Torah

Apocrypha Letter of Aristeas 1:297

That question has been nagging at me lately, especially after diving into the Letter of Aristeas. This text, purporting to be a first-hand account of the translation of the Hebrew ...

Prophecy