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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
וָאֶתְחַנַּן Left to right: Vittorio Orlando (Italy), David Lloyd George (Great Britain), Georges Clemenceau (France), Woodrow Wilson (United States).In a sense one might say that
אַחֲרֵי מוֹת / קְדֹשִׁים What is this fascination with the possibility of life beyond this planet? Are we so insecure in our human existence that