A King’s Treasure For A Jew from Queens
From The Exodus To The Present Day, The Torah Shows Us That Communal Freedom Rests Upon The Personal. Enslaved Minds Neither Merit Nor Are Capable Of Sustaining A Free Polity.
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From The Exodus To The Present Day, The Torah Shows Us That Communal Freedom Rests Upon The Personal. Enslaved Minds Neither Merit Nor Are Capable Of Sustaining A Free Polity.
With the story of the ten plagues of Egypt, Jews begin their long and yet to be completed journey from bondage to freedom
Moshe gets from the Almighty the unenviable task of dragging unwilling Hebrews from slavery to freedom, from bondage to independence because he is both loving and violent and most of all because he is fiercely loyal to his own kind
As Israel begins producing natural gas from the Leviathan Field for the world market, there is a sense that just as the prophets foretold the entire nation will be transformed by the profits
Joseph uses his financial genius and the laws of supply and demand to make serfs out of Egyptian farmers
Joseph finds himself in the position to make his brothers pay for what they had done to him and he does not miss his chance
The parallel stories of Joseph to whom the Blessing is freely given and of Tamar who must risk her life to wrestle it back bracket the human condition
From the rededication ceremony of the Second Temple defiled by priests assimilated into the Greek culture to a housewarming party of a newlyweds’ first apartment in Israel, Hanuka sheds a holy light on the unbroken chain of Jewish generations
In this week’s reading, Jacob is transformed from a follower into a leader of men and a builder of an enduring nation, a nation that still bears his new name of Israel
Jacob (Israel), with his constant struggle to make a name for himself, a struggle that did not stop once he had finally succeeded, is the Patriarch that most defines the nation that carries his name.