Word to the Wise: Say Less. Word #40.

WORD: A Word a Week from the World’s Best Seller. Follow the Annual Torah Re-Run Series with Amichai Lau-Lavie’s Newest Year-Long Blog. To subscribe via email click here. To listen to the audio version click here.   play words דברים How many words you read a day? how many words you speak, and hear? how […]

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Snake, Shiva, Schechter – Report from Jerusalem 1/12

Mourning rituals. Gay rights. Policy change and the silent scream that is the shedding of a snake’s skin and the process of change in the world. Somehow this all comes together in my report from a few meetings and encounters in Jerusalem in the first week of January 2012.  This Midrash came to my mind […]

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