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Unscrolled: Israel Past and Future

The generation of the exodus is commanded to imagine that their lives are part of a story. In so doing, they cast their eyes forward to the generations of the distant future: to us.

Unscrolled: The Hardened Heart

If God has “hardened” or, in some instances, “strengthened” Pharaoh’s heart, is this to say that God violated Pharoah’s free will?

Unscrolled: The God of Nighttime

The jagged and gargantuan architecture of mountains implies nothing particularly gentle about their architect.

Unscrolled Vayechi: Disrupting the Natural Order

We are being set up by the text to anticipate a recurrence of this eternally recurring motif—the overturn of primogeniture—in which the younger sibling attains the blessing and privilege due the older.

Unscrolled Vayishlach: The Meaning of Freedom

It is in this encounter that Jacob finds the power to release himself from the cycle of grievance and revenge, deception and flight, that heretofore colored his life.

Unscrolled Toldot: Living Water

Toldot follows Isaac as he sojourns in the desert city of Be’er Sheva, digging up wells that his father had once dug and rededicating them.

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