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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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
The Lord’s controversy with the House of Israel as proclaimed by the Prophet Hosea includes this charge: I have written for him the great things
Not that long ago, the men’s Bible study I am blessed to attend spent several months going through the Gospel of Mark. One morning we
מִּשְׁפָּטִים How would one describe hell? Dante does a nice job in his Inferno, depicting levels of escalating unpleasantness corresponding to the earthly misdeeds of