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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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
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
חֻקַּת Is it possible to be a hero without paying a price? A hero is one who does something worthy of esteem on behalf of
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:
נָשֹׂא This post-modern generation of the industrialized West has lost sight of the power of the Oath. That is why there is so little understanding