Judaism

The Holy Square

The Holy Square

When you are dying in your bed many years from now, would you be willing to trade all those likes and hearts and shares and retweets from your first day on the internet to your last, for just one chance to come back here as young men and women and live the life you pretended to have in other people’s pockets?

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The Year is 5781

The Year is 5781

God, in this instance, is essentially putting out a hit on a child. In a court of law, the hitman—in this case, Abraham—is not solely responsible for the murder he commits. It is also the person who orchestrates the hit that bears some responsibility.

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The True Meaning of Passover

The True Meaning of Passover

The following paragraphs are taken from an email I’ve been sending my gentile friends more or less every year on the day of Passover, or as you folks might refer to it: “that holiday based on the Disney film Prince of Egypt.” Since I originally wrote this document nine (!) years ago, I could not help but make some slight alterations to the text.

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