And now, if I have indeed found favor in Your eyes, pray let me know Your ways Exodus 33:13 Before we buy property together we’d like to know...

On streets of San Francisco you could see coyotes, and jackals would be seen in parks of Tel Aviv, and if in Welsh towns you observed...

And on its bottom hem you shall make pomegranates Exodus 28:33 In our home, which will, soon no longer be our home, we planted Biblical fruits in all...

The claim that French by Frenchmen is not spoken reminds me of the hoax that Ahasuerus was a stable boy before he ever became king, an...

And you shall make a menorah of pure gold.     Exodus 25:31 When the first thing we were asked to make required us to use solid...

If you are staying in Damascus and long for somewhere cooler the question that you ought to ask is: “How do I find Malula?” In mountains of the...

I was there when the man Moses mounted a defense of himself: that he needed no dreams, was never taught to talk out of a trance and...

By morning the children’s clothes had dried on the barbed wire and were packed with toys for the train. The drunks felt themselves sober and the hasty lust...

After Exodus 22:4-26 Some of our best laws are here – If a fire goes forth and finds thorns… …then congratulate the fire for living above its expectations...

In all the world the tallest of all creatures is the giraffe, which is as tall as tales told by liars, or by teachers to hide their...

Moses obeyed his father in law, and he did all that he said. Exodus 18:24 When I first met my father-in-law naturally, he was suspicious. Who was this man,...

Momentarily distinct with our own bodies and our own consciousness, we are blessed to risk love, to parent new life, to create and innovate, to strive and to rest. And...

How God, in his perversity, ties knots sometimes, unties when time seems right to him, we learn through rhyme. But in a university, where everything is deconstructed, we learn...

A ploughed field abutted the barbed wire and the ploughed field outlasted the barbed wire and the plougher of the field survived to keep ploughing his...

"and the waters were to them as a wall from their right and from their left." Exodus 14:22 I like to visit places that have the biggest...

Do you remember what it was like? Walls of water taller than a Grand Canyon?

Now how should we address a tree? Perhaps as you, perhaps as thee, suggesting there’s a parity between us. Familiarity is clear in French if we use “tu” to...

And also our cattle will go with us; not a hoof will remain Exodus 10:26 In the shadow of the darkest dark moments before the final plague took...

This poem was originally posted on January 29, 2020. Locusts A few months after we moved into our house the ants felt bold enought to join us. Their...

  Contracts benefit, but covenants transform, the former mere transactions but relationships the latter, pulpit and platform where minds are open, never shut. Cooperating, fauna which have selfish genes survive...

  This is the way I’m telling everybody to be vaccinated, learning from the Torah that we must do this to stay alive. The Torah tells us...

This poem was originally posted on January 22, 2020. I’m gonna harden my heart I’m gonna swallow my tears I’m gonna turn and leave you here — Quarterflash If...

A president who refuses to accept defeat, Who continues to insist that facts are on his side, Who asks his followers to overturn the results of...

Smile although your heart is aching, forget about the fact you’re faking. You’re making too much of life’s tsimmes every time you make a grimace instead of seizing...

He turned this way and that way, and he saw that there was no man; so he struck the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. Exodus...

This poem originally posted on January 15, 2020.   A new King rose over Egypt who did not know Joseph. It is in our nature to be...

And Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am going to die… …And I have given you one portion over your brothers..." Genesis 48:21-22 Someone I know once...

Just thinking of our ethnic dishes can make digestive juices run and Jewish holidays such fun–– chopped liver and gefilte fishes. Gastronomy will save the Jews until they’ve earned...

I revel in the fake spoiler. We can’t start a single episode of any television show without me turning to my wife and telling her

And he wept out loud, so the Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard. Genesis 45:2 It doesn’t take much to get me to weep. A minor...