Consequences: Shemini

Utopian myths were shattered with Adam and Eve’s expulsion from the Garden of Eden. A Genesis passage best explains the real world’s realities: “…[t]he ground is cursed on your account. You’ll eat from it with suffering all the days of your life. And it will grow thorn and thistle at you, and you’ll eat theContinue reading “Consequences: Shemini”

Pedukei’s Ten Commandments’ Moment: The Haftorah

And all the work that King Solomon had wrought in the house of the Lord was finished… And the Lord has established his word that he spoke, and I have risen up in the place of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord spoke, and have built a houseContinue reading “Pedukei’s Ten Commandments’ Moment: The Haftorah”

Indiana Jones & The Temple of Schmutz: A Ten Commandments’ Tale

can a filthy temple solve the mystery of the ark of the covenant? to solve this enigma, we will enlist the great indiana jones. a time machine and the bible will be the other tools needed besides the cool hat and bullwhip. before getting into the time machine, we must first reference some parts ofContinue reading “Indiana Jones & The Temple of Schmutz: A Ten Commandments’ Tale”