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Sifrei Devarim 278, drawing on Psalm 85:14, tells us, "His righteousness shall go before Him and shall set his steps on the path." In other words, our acts of tzedakah, of righteou...
You don't even notice. A poor person finds it, uses it to buy food, and sustains themselves. Did you just perform an act of charity? That's precisely the scenario that Rabbi Elazar...
We find ourselves in Sifrei Devarim, a collection of legal interpretations on the book of Deuteronomy, specifically chapter 26, where the Israelites are commanded to declare before...
The Book of Jubilees, a fascinating text from around the 2nd century BCE, sheds some unique light on it. Jubilees focuses on calendar and law, presenting itself as a revelation giv...
It's considered apocryphal by some, pseudepigraphal by others (meaning, falsely attributed to a biblical figure), but no matter what you call it, it's a fascinating window into a w...
It's easy to dismiss them as arbitrary, ancient dietary restrictions. But what if there's something much deeper going on? Something about character, about virtue, about becoming th...
It's easy to dismiss them as outdated or just plain weird. But what if there's a deeper wisdom hidden within? The Letter of Aristeas, an ancient text, gives us a fascinating perspe...
It’s a question that’s sparked debate and curiosity for centuries. But what if I told you the answer isn’t just about dietary rules, but about something much deeper – about ethics,...
I'm talking about the Letter of Aristeas. It's an incredible text that purports to describe how the Septuagint, that famous Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible, came to be. But t...
