As I mentioned in my entry yesterday, each year at our Passover Seder we put together a series of readings and activities focused on a theme (or set of themes). We pull the readings from an Haggadah named A Different Night. In addition to going around the table asking people to read selections from the [...]
For a number of years now we have a Passover Seder at our house on the first night of Passover. We have between 15 and 25 people (I recognize that is a bit of a range) including family, friends, guests from various sources, Jews and non-Jews. Each year we try and focus on a few [...]
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Ancient books were often were named by their first word. Thus, the book many call Genesis, is called in Hebrew, Bereshit, ‘In the Beginning’, after the first word in Genesis. For those who like to measure by counting, Bereshit is the longest of the five books in the Torah, with 20, 512 of the 79,847 Hebrew words; [...]
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As those who know me know, I have become very interested in the archaeology of the Bible. By Bible, I mean the Hebrew Bible. My personal opinion is that faith is just that, faith. To me, faith does not have to be ‘proven’ by the historicity of religious texts or disproven by the lack of same. My [...]