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It’s a longing, a hope so fervent it practically vibrates off the page. This ancient text, not included in the Hebrew Bible but found in the Septuagint and other Christian Bibles, ...
That’s what happens when I think about the story tucked away in the Second Book of Maccabees. We find ourselves in a moment of intense persecution. The Seleucid Empire, under Antio...
The story of the Maccabees, as told in the Second Book of Maccabees, wrestles with that feeling—that plea for divine mercy even when we know we've messed up. Chapter 10 opens with ...
The Book of Maccabees II gives us a glimpse into that moment. After years of fighting against oppression, against those who sought to defile their most sacred space, they finally p...
The Torah tells us (Genesis 8:10) that Noah waited seven more days and then released the dove again. But why? The Midrash of Philo tackles this head-on, asking a simple but profoun...
TEN MIRACLES WERE WROUGHT FOR OUR FATHERS IN JERUSALEM:1The current editions read ‘in the Temple’. This is an error, because the list of miracles wrought in the Temple is given lat...
And Jakob lifted up his feet lightly to proceed, and he came to the land of the children of the cast. And he looked and saw, and behold (there was) a well in a field, and behold th...
And after this Mosheh and Aharon went in unto Pharoh, and said, Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: Release My people, that they may make unto Me a festival in the wilderness. ...
And the Lord said to Mosheh, Lift up thy hand with thy rod over the rivers, over the trenches, and over the canals, and I will bring up the frogs upon the land of Mizraim. And Ahar...
