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Shekalim 1:1
Jan 1, 2008 By Daniel Nevins | Text Study
What preparations are needed for the Jewish community to begin a new year?
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Demai 2:2
Jan 1, 2008 By Daniel Nevins
Jewish society in the early rabbinic period was divided between a scholarly elite known as “members” who were scrupulous in the complicated system of tithing food and maintaining its purity, and the common people, referred to derisively as “Am Ha’aretz” and suspected of violating these dietary rules.
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Jealousy As a Test of Virtue
Dec 14, 2007 By Daniel Nevins | Commentary | Vayiggash
Gifts can make you crazy. Picking them is hard, and so is accepting them with grace.
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The Many Qualities of Abram
Oct 12, 2007 By Daniel Nevins | Commentary | Lekh Lekha
Abram in the light; Abram in the dark. Abram with men at war; Abram with women at war.
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God of Wrath?
Jan 26, 2006 By Daniel Nevins | Commentary | Va'era
There’s an expression that appears periodically in the popular press that annoys me to no end: “The Old Testament God of wrath.”
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