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Tag Archives: israelites
This Week’s Torah Portion Is Pekudei (Exodus 38:21-40:38)
I discuss the weekly Torah portion with Rabbi Rabbs every Monday at 7pm PST on my live cam and YouTube. This week’s parasha is Pekudei. For the first time, we’re going to do Torah Talk Monday night at the House … Continue reading
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Tagged israelites, marriage god, parasha, rabbs, weekly torah portion, yeshiva student
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Is Moshe A Prophet Or A Failed Leader?
From wikipedia: Moses speculated that perchance there were among the Israelites some whose hearts were even then turning away from God to go worship the gods of those nations, who might think themselves immune, thinking that they would be safe … Continue reading
This Week’s Parsha Is Nitzavim
It is particularly important when I do my weekly session with Joey Kurtzman Thursday afternoon that I look smart. We’re going to have a special guest joining us live on my cam — a woman who is as smart as … Continue reading
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Tagged abraham isaac, israelites, kurtzman, parsha, silver and gold, thursday afternoon
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Joey Kurtzman and I Discuss Torah Portion Shoftim II
Complete video of my discussion with Joey Kurtzman on this week’s Torah portion Shoftim. Deuteronomy 16:18–21:9. Moses directed the Israelites to appoint magistrates and officials for their tribes to govern the people with justice, impartially, without bribes.
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Judaism is an unromantic religion
Complete video of my discussion with Joey Kurtzman on this week’s Torah portion Shoftim. Luke Ford, Joey Kurtzman discuss this week’s Torah portion "Shoftim." Deuteronomy 16:18–21:9. Moses directed the Israelites to appoint magistrates and officials for their tribes to govern … Continue reading
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High On Mount Sinai?
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The biblical Israelites may have been high on a hallucinogenic plant when Moses brought the Ten Writing in the British journal Time and Mind, Benny Shanon of Jerusalem’s Hebrew University said two plants in the Sinai desert … Continue reading
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Tagged altered state, ayahuasca, benny shanon, book of exodus, contexts, curative powers, hebrew university, imaginings, israelites, Jerusalem, journal time, molecules, moses, mount sinai, psychoactive plants, reuters, sinai desert, spiritual feelings, thunder lightning, time and mind
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