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Oct 22, 2017, 5:37 AM

What do Eve and Cain have in common?

Every year I come to a familiar, beloved text and invariably see something new. The Bible can be read, sung, looked at numerically, literarily, mystically, and academically. In our cultural world we tend to focus on reading a text...

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Oct 18, 2017, 2:29 PM

Freud’s Subconscious Discovery of God

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), the father of psychoanalysis and a figure as eminent as Galileo or Einstein, devoted a great deal of attention to religion. Some of his works, such as Totem and Taboo (1913), The Future of an Illusion...

Allen S. Maller

Oct 17, 2017, 7:45 PM

“Adonai regretted making humans on earth…” (Genesis 6:6)

Why did God regret creating humankind? Because "They are flesh..."Rabbenu Bahya (13-14th c.) noted: Humans are unworthy that God's spirit should reside in them, since they are only flesh like the other creatures, and their soul is drawn to...

Stuart Weinblatt

Oct 17, 2017, 7:07 AM

What Harvey Weinstein Can Learn from the Biblical Story of Creation

By now Harvey Weinstein, who named his original company Miramax in honor of his parents, Max and Miriam Weinstein, is known for more than just being a successful movie mogul and producer. After an expose by the NY Times and...

Betsalel Steinhart

Oct 16, 2017, 3:49 PM

The viral 'me too' Facebook campaign is achingly sad and absolutely terrifying; it is also a wake-up call

Allen S. Maller

Oct 15, 2017, 5:30 AM

Spiritual awareness evolves in four stages

“AT THAT TIME HUMANS BEGAN TO INVOKE YHVH BY NAME” (Genesis 4:26) 1. - Prior to this time humans believed in the local world of spirits. They invoked the spirits of their dead ancestors. The oldest Homo sapiens skulls c.160,000...

Esther Goldenberg

Oct 12, 2017, 2:32 PM

Bashers! What’s Your Legacy?

Earlier this week I was talking to a friend in Israel on the phone. Or, at least, I was trying to. I was in the car and we were talking over WhatsApp, which isn't perfect, but usually works pretty...

William Hamilton

Oct 11, 2017, 8:43 PM

Warming faith at chilly times

“If you should see my son Cain, tell him…” These words, attributed to Cain’s biblical mother Eve, were penciled onto the wall of a railcar heading to the gas chambers. Thus the late poet Dan Pagis sought to capture the...

Rabbi Jack Cohen

Oct 11, 2017, 5:50 PM

Work in progress

We all suffer from a God complex. We want to get things perfectly right the first time, and we get really frustrated with ourselves when we don't. You'd think we would pick up on the pattern by now. You'd think...

Oct 11, 2017, 1:47 PM

How to Recycle an Etrog and Bible Blog Your Life

The etrog is one of the four species on the holiday of Sukkot that symbolizes the Jewish people. It is held together with a long date palm frond and myrtle and willow branches and waved in all directions. The...

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