Fox Byte 5775 #52: Vayelekh (And He Went)
וַיֵּלֶךְ Isaac Asimov could have written I, Robot without Karel Čapek’s help, but he would have needed a different word for the artificial life forms
September 21, 2015
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Through the Bible with The Barking Fox
What is the purpose of a covenant if the parties in it do not keep their ends of the agreement? The parties enter into a
September 16, 2015
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Fox Byte 5775 #51: Nitzavim (You Are Standing)
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
September 12, 2015
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Fox Byte 5775 #50: Ki Tavo (When You Enter In)
כִּי־תָבִוֹא When General Lew Wallace published Ben Hur in 1880, he had no idea that his tale of a wrongfully condemned Jewish prince would have
September 5, 2015
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When Presidents Speak Prophecy
What does it matter to the world if the President of the United States decrees a change to the name of North America’s highest mountain
August 31, 2015
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Fox Byte 5775 #49: Ki Tetze (When You Go Out)
כִּי־תֵצֵא As with all good spy stories, the 1968 movie adaptation of Alistair MacLean’s Ice Station Zebra does not reveal the full truth until near
August 30, 2015
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End Times
Book Review: Know the Time, Change Your World, by Barry L. Miller
It seems that everyone is expecting the world to change for the worse in September 2015. That, at least, is a prevailing topic of conversation
August 27, 2015
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Fox Byte 5775 #48: Shoftim (Judges)
שֹׁפְטִים What does it take to remove a head of state? This question concerns situations in which a nation finds cause to remove a leader
August 23, 2015
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Fox Byte 5775 #47: Re’eh (See)
רְאֵה It is understandable why Peter Jackson had to take considerable license with The Lord of the Rings when he brought J.R.R. Tolkien’s mammoth work
August 15, 2015
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Fox Byte 5775 #46: Eikev (Because)
עֵקֶב What is this tendency of human minds to discard unpleasant things and cling to what is pleasant, nice, and amusing? This can be useful
August 7, 2015
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