Precocious for 1984 and still good advice today. Toby Johnson had an article in the L.A. Weekly as part of a series for Gay Pride 2012, titled "What does it Mean to be Gay?" Pleasure as a Spiritual Path is Toby's Commentary on Bruce P. Grether's The Secret of the Golden ...
For decades, from the time Ehrlichia was first identified in Tunisia, the species existed in relative obscurity in the veterinary literature. As a result of a major outbreak of canine ehrlichiosis in Vietnam, US military and research veterinarians focused their attention on Ehrlichia. Directly becau...
[A Suggested Commentary for the Doubling of Days of Impurity and Purity for the Woman Who Births a Daughter] Shnaton 11 (1997): 153–66; Jonathan Magonet, “‘But If It Is a Girl She Is Unclean for Twice Seven Days . . .’: The Riddle of Leviticus 12.5,” in Reading Leviticus: ...
In the spirit of Nechama Leibowitz’s classic, New Studies in the Weekly Parsha, Rabbi David Kasher offers 54 essays exploring the vast but understudied genre of Jewish literature known as parshanut, or Torah commentary. From the masters of midrash who began the tradition, to the medieval com...
Again, the answers are not always the same (Torah, priesthood, covenant, monarchy, prophecy, temple, rebuilding, new covenant), but the central questions are always about identity – who are we, who is God, and what will save us from this giant threat right now? In the New Testament, ...
The eyes of Jehovah are on the righteous.—1 Pet. 3:12. All of us will face some kind of trial. However, we will never have to face a trial on our own. Like a loving father, Jehovah is always watching over us. He is by our side, ready to hear our pleas for help and eag...
How can life give us family and friends, laughter and love, but also suffering and sorrow; not just all that is good, but much that is bad – even a Hamas attack (on, of all days, Simchat Torah, the day following Sukkot, which will never be the same again). But that’s the ...
Rabbi mentioned that the commentary that we use in Torah Study left out an important word in its translation of verse 31:19. The commentary’s translation is, “Write down this song and teach it to the children of Israel.” But there’s a Hebrew word in there that didn’t make it int...
In the spirit of Nechama Leibowitz’s classic, New Studies in the Weekly Parsha, Rabbi David Kasher offers 54 essays exploring the vast but understudied genre of Jewish literature known as parshanut, or Torah commentary. From the masters of midrash who began the tradition, to the medieval com...
Celebrating Simchat Torah Ten days after Yom Kippur is the celebration of Simchat Torah where the congregation dances joyously, holding the Sifrei Torahs. The Sifrei Torahs contain the five books of Moses and these handwritten scrolls are very precious, with it taking over a year for one scroll...