As Bar Ilan University professor Joshua Berman engagingly and convincingly demonstrates in his “Echoes of Egypt” Haggadah, the process by which the Passover story took shape was as a polemic against the belief system and symbols of authority of Pharaoh and his people.
Neil Sedaka was born March 13, 1939 in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Mac and Eleanor Sedaka. His father was Sephardic and his mother Ashkenazi; Sedaka was a transliteration of the Hebrew “tzedakah.”
Yes, we have a drinking problem, right here in the Jewish community.
I’m a freeform command follower. Oxygen takes its own path into my lungs. My blood flows at its discretion.
Whenever we engage in a mitzvah, we create connection — and from that connection, light emerges.
Those who seek spirituality will ultimately find it, in part, among other people. The more circles of connection that emanate into the world, the more wholeness we will share, together.
With the biblical tale read on the holiday of Purim twice – once in the evening, once the next morning – it’s occasion to remember a pair of heroic American Mordecais, one by that first name and one with that last.
The comparison between the Garden of Eden and the Mishkan offers a message about humanity’s ability to recover from sin and failure.
What I have is for you. Everything…
