No week in which Parashat va-Yeishev is read would be complete without listening to Bob Marley’s Redemption Song, which begins with the following lines: Old pirates, yes, they rob I; Sold I to the merchant ships, Minutes after they took I From the bottomless pit. But my hand was made strong By the hand of [...]
The song Noaḥ was written by Yoram Taharlev and the music is by Matti Caspi. Read here (Hebrew) for a description of some background to the writing of the song. Shabbat Shalom. נוח לא שכחנו איך בגשם ובסער נוח לתיבה אספת את חיות היער שתיים שתיים מכל מין האריה והממותה הגמל והשיבוטה וגם ההיפופוטם פתח [...]
In the Rosh ha-Shannah edition of Haaretz, Yaacov Shavit had a nice article about the sins of the generation of the flood. The Hebrew can be found here, but I do not think that it was translated into English. Shavit brings numeorus interpretations and retellings of the flood story from many different sources, recent and [...]
Here is a devar Torah that I wrote for the Academy of Jewish Religion and can be found here. With Pharaoh and his army in hot pursuit, Parashat Beshalah describes the Children of Israel crying out to God, “In great fear the Children of Israel cried out to the LORD.” (Exodus 14:10). No answer came [...]
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