Failure Was Academic: Shoftim

Can scriptural interpretation’s depth be enhanced by both personal experience and education? Is it possible to become a better student? A Torah Portion Shoftim analysis can answer these questions. Education My undergraduate studies, legal studies, and life circumstances offer a unique perspective to a Shoftim Torah Portion passage which addresses academics. The passage reveals theContinue reading “Failure Was Academic: Shoftim”

A History Lesson From the Great Glass Elevator: A Ten Commandments’ Tale

a modern definition of history appears to be “whatever makes you happy and safe.” modern students’ sensibilities cannot be challenged. how dare someone ask them to think the question “why?”! a publisher, it is reported, is updating a famous anti-semite’s work to make edits to them to “sensitize” the text. no, the text is notContinue reading “A History Lesson From the Great Glass Elevator: A Ten Commandments’ Tale”