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For millennia, people have sought guidance from… well, some pretty unusual places. Today, let's dive into some ancient methods of divination, as described in the Sifrei Devarim (De...
Our tradition grapples with it head-on. Sifrei Devarim, an ancient commentary on the Book of Deuteronomy, offers a powerful perspective on this. It states, "without wrong": meaning...
That feeling, that's what we're diving into today. We’re looking at a tiny phrase tucked away in Sifrei Devarim, a collection of legal midrashim on the Book of Deuteronomy. (Think ...
Ben Sira, also known as Ecclesiasticus, is a book of wisdom literature from around the 2nd century BCE – a time of huge cultural shifts and anxieties. It’s not part of the Hebrew B...
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 – ...
We often read the stories of the Torah, of the Hebrew Bible, as one continuous flow, but sometimes pausing to consider when things happened adds a whole new layer of meaning. Take ...
And it's one that the Book of Jubilees tackles head-on. Jubilees, for those unfamiliar, is an ancient Jewish text that retells the stories of Genesis and Exodus, but with a distinc...
The Book of Jubilees, a text not included in the Hebrew Bible but considered sacred by some, gives us a peek into that world. Specifically, we're looking at chapter 21. Here, we fi...
It's easy to think of him as simply a messenger, a conduit for God's will. But the Book of Jubilees, a fascinating text from around the 2nd century BCE, paints a picture of Moses t...
