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Posted by Daniel M. Kimmel | Tags: Mas'ei
You sometimes hear about how vengeful and violent the God of the "Old Testament" is, usually from people examining our text from a non-Jewish perspective. Consider this passage from Parshah Mas'ei, with instructions on the coming claiming of the Promised Land: "You shall dispossess all the...
Posted by Jonathan Ginsburg, March 1, 2009
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Posted by Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld, August 8, 2007
The concept of teshuvah, repentance, is a given in traditional Jewish circles: One who sins before God has the inalienable right to repent and to be absolved. Nevertheless, an analysis of the Torah indicates that such a theology might be absent from the text. In this week’s portion, Ekev, Moses...read more
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