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During this election season, the candidates and parties hotly dispute the wisdom of leadership policies. Judaism has a long tradition of challenging even Divine policies, both contemplated and implemented (the Book of Job being the preeminent example), though always stopping short of rejecting or dismissing G-d. How then might we judge G-d’s most dramatic and violent policy: wiping out virtually all life on earth?
Some months ago on Jeopardy! a seminary student appeared as a contestant. During his brief on-air interview, he offered, and was invited, to recite the first verse of the Bible in Hebrew. ...
For this Shabbat, an intermediate day of the joyous Sukkot festival, our sages assigned a special holiday reading from Exodus and Leviticus. The final Torah portion, Vzot Habracha, will be read on Tuesday for Simchat Torah, whereupon we will begin the Torah anew with B’reishit next Shabbat. This, therefore, being my only opportunity to share thoughts about the final Torah portion, I’ll jump ahead and do so now. ...
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