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It’s a story filled with intrigue, royal ambition, and a touch of the miraculous. It all starts with a letter… or rather, The Letter of Aristeas. This ancient text, attributed to s...
We're going to look at the beginning of the Book of Maccabees I. Our scene opens with Antiochus. Now, this wasn't just any Antiochus; this was Antiochus IV Epiphanes, a king of the...
It's considered Deuterocanonical, meaning it's included in some versions of the Bible but not in others. Think of it as bonus content, filling in historical gaps and adding layers ...
The story of the Maccabees is just that: a story of forging a Jewish identity amidst empires clashing and cultures colliding. Today, let's journey with Jonathan Maccabee, son of Ma...
It's easy to imagine them through our own lens, colored by sacred texts and centuries of tradition. But what did the rest of the world see? Well, let’s start with a rather unflatte...
He's responding to the claims of a writer named Apion, who seems to have a real bone to pick with the Jews of Alexandria. Apion, you see, is going after the Alexandrian Jews, criti...
Take the covenant God makes with Abraham in Genesis 15. It's a big moment. God promises Abraham this whole huge swathe of land for his descendants. But then it gets…well, geographi...
But, like so many things in the Torah, there's a deeper layer, a hidden meaning waiting to be uncovered. The ancient sages, particularly those who engaged in midrash – that beautif...
We all know the story from Genesis 34 – how Shechem, son of Hamor, defiled Jacob's daughter, Dinah, and how Jacob's sons, particularly Simeon and Levi, exacted a brutal revenge. Bu...
