In the 1500s and 1600s, the experience of two countries seemed to defy all that had gone before. Spain had amassed the largest supply of gold in history thanks to its New World conquests, but saw inflation and near bankruptcy as a result. In Holland,...
“The city that was great with people (Lamentations 1:1).” The Midrash goes to great lengths to describe the wisdom and wealth of Jerusalem’s inhabitants before its destruction by the Roman. I appreciate the point of describing the wisdom, but why spend so much time describing the...
"If only someone would turn my head to water and my eye to a spring of tears." Jeremiah 8:23 I was taught and always read this as Jeremiah frustrated by the inadequacies of his tears. I imagined him weeping and wondering if he could possibly cry...
They have been married for so long that they don’t remember why they are fighting. They simply know that they are in an argument. There is no single specific issue. They fight. They stopped listening to each other many years ago. The only thing they...
The BNN was able to catch Rabbi Joshua, Moshe Rabbeinu’s spokesman, for a few questions: BNN: Why did the White Tent tweet a coded message ( See A Coded Tweet) rather than spell out the topics Moshe will address? Rabbi Joshua: Moshe wanted to catch everyone’s attention...
Rabbi Abba bar Kahana opened his discourse with the verse, “Let out your voice with joy, O daughter of Gallim.” (Isaiah 10:30) Isaiah said to Israel, “Rather than you should utter songs and praises before idols, sing with a joyous voice the words of Torah,...
From the Camp of The Children of Israel in the Plains of Moab - The BNN reports: The entire camp of the Children of Israel is buzzing today about a Tweet sent from the White Tent announcing, “Moses will begin his farewell address from the...