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...

I have been praying for this day and now it is here! With great excitement, a touch of trepidation And with deep gratitude I give thanks To all...

Some people once to Martin Luther turned and asked: “What would you do, sir, if you learned the world would end tomorrow?” to which he replied: “Good...

This poem was originally posted on January 2, 2020. Like Joseph, I know what it’s like to not have a father for decades. Mine, hidden in the...

And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh the king of Egypt Genesis 41:46 When I was thirty years old, I had overcome nothing. It was...

If there ever was a series of Torah Portions worthy of binge-studying, this is it. Cliffhanger after cliffhanger - The Story of Joseph: Episode 2. Our hero...

A taste as old as cold, cold water, don’t put them in long drinks, but shorter martinis or a Bloody Mary. They clear the head and make...

Roald Dahl's abusive comments made about the Jewsshould not be treated by his many readers with impunity,in contrast to my sympathetic but aberrant viewswhich...

And they took him and cast him into the pit I grew up without a sibling so never had the young impetus to throw mine into a...

Me that 'ave been what I've been -- Me that 'ave gone where I've gone -- Me that 'ave seen what I've seen -- 'Ow can I...

I saw an angel face to face, and my soul was saved. Let me count the angels in my life The ones with skin, the ones...

This poem originally published December 11, 2019 Somewhere along the Jabbok River which has a different name if you come from the other side of the family Jacob...

Of life’s artistry interpreters, we find originality a commodity that’s very rare. Artfully we all try to fine-tune without finality great melodies already in the air. Sting (Gordon...

So Jacob worked for Rachel seven years, but they appeared to him like a few days because of his love for her.          ...