Category: Lech Lecha

DON’T CONFUSE ME WITH FACTS

In his seminal 1869 essay, The Subjection of Women, the celebrated nineteenth-century British social philosopher... Read More

LEARNING TO SPEAK THE LANGUAGE OF GOD

In the summer of 1725, a group of hunters near Hamelin, Lower Saxony, spotted a... Read More

THE JOURNEY WITH TWO BEGINNINGS

Lech Lecha begins with God’s instruction to Abraham to depart from his homeland, birthplace and... Read More

GOD’S MOMENTOUS COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM (4)

Chapter 15 of Bereishit records the seminal covenant between God and the patriarch Abraham, when... Read More

GOD’S MOMENTOUS COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM (3)

Chapter 15 of Bereishit records the seminal covenant between God and the patriarch Abraham, when... Read More

GOD’S MOMENTOUS COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM (2)

Chapter 15 of Bereishit records the seminal covenant between God and the patriarch Abraham, when... Read More

GOD’S MOMENTOUS COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM (1)

Chapter 15 of Bereishit records the seminal covenant between God and the patriarch Abraham, when... Read More

DIVERGENT THINKING IS CRITICAL TO JUDAISM

Over the past week, all of us have been shocked by images of yeshiva students... Read More