Our forebears were prophets. Later, prophets and prophetesses guided us, chided us and comforted us.
Torah refers to the Five Books of Moses, the entire Hebrew Bible, and the entire corpus of religious Jewish knowledge. Torah is how the Creator shares the purpose, intent, and desire behind all that exists.
Anyone with any knowledge about the natural way of trees would say it should have died.
It’s a lovely Wednesday summer afternoon in South Africa and I’m sitting at my desk thinking about what to write for my
upcoming column…
G‑d’s compassion was not based on our “deserving” it. And that is the deep reality of compassion: It is not earned; rather, it is given.