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That’s exactly what happened on the night Haman built the gallows for MordecAI. : it was the first night of Pesach, Passover. The Seder night. The very night we remember God’s mira...
That’s precisely what happened. Haman, you see, was trying to subtly suggest how the king might reward him. But as Legends of the Jews recounts, he noticed the king’s face change w...
Take the story of Haman and Mordecai from the Book of Esther. We know Haman planned to hang Mordecai on a towering structure, but have you ever considered what that structure was m...
Sometimes, it's almost… mathematical. Take the story of Haman, the villain of the Purim story, and his ultimate downfall. We all know the story: Haman plots to annihilate the Jews ...
Of wanting to hold onto something important, even when the world around us changes. And sometimes, it’s about acknowledging the darkness we've overcome. Take Purim, for example, th...
She wasn't done. This time, she wanted her story, the story of her courage and her people’s deliverance, enshrined within the Holy Scriptures. But the sages hesitated. Big time. Ad...
We read in the book of Numbers that "all those counted were six hundred three thousand, five hundred and fifty" (Numbers 1:46). But numbers in the Torah are never just numbers, are...
The ancient rabbis certainly did. They found that very human feeling reflected in the Torah itself, specifically in the book of Numbers, Bamidbar in Hebrew. And they explore it in ...
He sees the very first verses of Genesis as a foreshadowing of the choices we all face. "The earth was emptiness (tohu vavohu)" – he says, that represents the actions of the wicked...
