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to a fascinating passage from Sifrei Bamidbar, a collection of legal interpretations on the Book of Numbers, specifically chapter 6, verse 4, dealing with the laws of the Nazir, or...
Our focus is on the verse in Deuteronomy (19:15) that states, "By word of two witnesses, or by word of three witnesses, shall a thing be established." Sounds simple enough. But wha...
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with the children of Israel, and say to them: When a man or, woman, seeing her who had gone astray in her corruption, shall (resolve t...
The prophet Daniel had such a dream. It's recorded in the Book of Daniel, and it's a vision that’s puzzled and inspired readers for centuries. "As I looked on," Daniel recounts, "t...
Jewish mystical tradition offers us some pretty imagery. We're talking about God's Throne of Glory – not just any chair, but a cosmic command center. A vision of ultimate authority...
And the answer, again and again, comes back to this: God is everywhere. It's right there in the scriptures. As it says, "His presence fills all the earth" (Isaiah 6:3). We're not t...
This is the journey of Enoch, a figure shrouded in mystery and legend. Led by the angel Michael, Enoch climbs through the heavens until he reaches the highest of them all: Aravot. ...
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...
Jewish tradition grapples with this feeling too, often through stories of angels – beings of immense power, but always, always subservient to God. What does it mean to say somethin...
