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Recent Additions Here: "A Song Every Day"

“One of Me” and Genesis 2

Can we serve as ezer k’negdo [help-meet] for one another? Might Elton John and Lil Nas X be an example of this?

Singing and Praying about Enemies

Musical context is shifting my perspective on “enemies” and “wicked ones” in the psalms.

Miriam, Amalek, Memory, and Mouths

How much do we lose, and what do we gain, when we forget to remember why we chose to remember or forget? What must remembered with our mouths and with our hearts?

Remedy of the Bima?

What is our responsibility, individually and collectively, for what is taught — or not — in our synagogues about reparations?

Or Olam: the light ahead and within

Seeking pieces of liturgy and other resources for uplift, as we try to move from the depths of Av to the new year, “Eternal Light”….

Tag: trope

Vayeishev: Language and Translation

Genesis/Breishit 39:2, 7-8, 10:

HASHEM was with Joseph [va’yehi* YHVH et-yosef]…. Continue reading Vayeishev: Language and Translation

Posted on November 29, 2009December 8, 2019Categories Breishit, literary analysis, SexTags Joseph, Language, trope, WeeklyTorah1 Comment on Vayeishev: Language and Translation