I You shall not pervert the judgment of your poor man in his lawsuit. Exodus 23:6 I tried to buy a lawsuit once but they wanted to upsell...

if you obey Me and keep My covenant, you shall be to Me a treasure out of all peoples, for Mine is the entire earth. –Exodus...

Before the fifteenth of Shevat a tree was crying: “I can’t talk!” I should feel sorry for it, but it should have cried, “I cannot walk!” Yet strangely...

Lungs expand when offered air. Little sacks collapse with exhalation, then revive and swell with each inspiration. Breathing is like love, the air creates space where none had...

On that day the Lord saved Israel from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dying on the seashore. Exodus 14:30 It is said...

The Egyptians embittered, Hebrew wayemareru, the lives of Israelites, which were, however, sweetened by their wives, their mirrors showing them, the midrash says, how lovely they...

But if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his neighbor who is nearest to his house shall take ...

God aimed the first of ten plagues against the Egyptian gods, the river Nile and idols that were made of wood and stone, and aimed...

And the Nile will swarm with frogs, and they will go up and come into your house and into your bedroom and upon your bed…
 –Exodus...

The James Webb Telescope that was designed to help us see what happened billions of years sooner after the Big Bang than any telescope before, was brilliantly...

Everyday I walk to the edge of the continent. I pass by a mysterious house on a beautiful street, named after the daughter of the...

Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I
 should take the children of Israel out of Egypt? –Exodus 3:11 We’re starting a new...

  While the Second World War, the one the Jewish people darkly to fire lost, was raging, it occurred. I refer to, if you didn’t realize, the Holocaust, the cause of which...

Jacob called for his sons and said, “Gather and I will tell you what will happen to you at the end of days. –Genesis 49:1 We’ll say...

Had Blücher been a little late at Waterloo, or Cleopatra’s nose been just a little shorter, as speculated counterfactually by Blaise Pascal, or had there been a...

Do not be afraid of going down to Egypt, for there I will make you into a great nation. Genesis 45:3 I don’t like change. I’m even afraid...

“Losing means that you at least were in the race,” about himself, not Jews, said Robert Dole. We never would have lost the race if we...

I remember my first Hanukkah. I was seven years old and my mother walked into the bathroom with a Charlie Brown toothbrush and said This is your Hanukkah...

When the entire land of Egypt hungered, the people cried out to Pharaoh for bread -Genesis 41:5 What sound does the call make? Whose ears is it arriving...

About two thousand years ago a Jewish comic used graffiti in a Jewish catacomb by illustrating, with religious circumspection, Jewish humor, drily writing for the dry...

Oh God, my God of all the gifts You have given me the potato pancake rises above all my cherished possessions. We are a people of the lasting...

Now Er, Judah's firstborn, was evil in the eyes of the Lord, and the Lord put him to death. -Genesis 38:7 This is all we know of...

An Odd Thanksgiving Ode to Bret Stephens To use a term that first was quoth by Jewish Jerseyman, Phil Roth, “American indigenous berserk” doesn’t seem for me to...

But Esau said, "I have plenty, my brother; let what you have remain yours." -Genesis 33:9 We, in the land of plenty are natural-born coveters. The inches on our...

Jacob showed no fear of angels when he had to wrestle with one, but he feared his brother Esau, both men greedy when they lived at home...

Reuben went in the days of the wheat harvest, and he found dudaim in the field and brought them to Leah, his mother -Genesis 30:14 I recently stood...

“Was the ladder---Hebrew sulam--- which our father Jacob dreamed about dramatically an elevator or an escalator?” asked my grandson to my son, a rabbi-mohel, Zak. I answered:...

Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and you sent me away from you? Genesis 26:27 Some of the friends I have today are not...

Before Isaac promised young Esau his benison he asked him to hunt and prepare him some venison, punning in English, which Moses then spoke, his Hebrew translation...

The water waited for him to start again