Fox Byte 5776 #1: When Good is Not Enough
The Barking Fox just completed the annual Torah Cycle and is ready to embark on another year of Bible commentary. Rather than embark on another
October 9, 2015
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The Barking Fox just completed the annual Torah Cycle and is ready to embark on another year of Bible commentary. Rather than embark on another
וְזֹאת הַבְּרָכָה Even superheroes have their weaknesses. If it were not so, the stories about them would be over very quickly and would not be
נִצָּבִים The worst fate a person can endure? That would be loss of self. It is not the same as selflessness, a desirable state of
דְּבָרִים One wonders whether Lewis Carroll required chemical substances to help him create the absurd worlds of his literature. Readers of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
מַּטּוֹת / מַסְעֵי William Shakespeare has such as way with murder. With so many characters meeting violent death in his plays it would seem that
פִּינְחָס One of the great depictions of American historical events is John Trumbull’s painting, Declaration of Independence, which hangs in the Rotunda of the United
בָּלָק The great military leaders of World War II include nine who attained the highest rank awarded by the United States of America. Those five-star
קֹרַח What would happen if the Vice President of the United States committed murder and got away with it? It is not a rhetorical question;
שְׁלַח־לְךָ About the time that Gideon of Manasseh delivered Israel from oppression of the Midianites and Amalekites (Judges 6:1-8:35), a war of (literally) epic proportions took
בְּהַעֲלֹתְךָ In a response to a reader’s question about his works, author Stephen R. Donaldson provided this enlightening comment about the motivation behind his writing: