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I Put It Back Again

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on February 28, 2021February 28, 2021

In his book, Oscar Wilde: The Story of an Unhappy Friendship, the English writer Robert…

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  • Biblical Ethics

Your Adversary’s Donkey

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on February 21, 2021February 21, 2021

The ability of spoken or written words to evoke an emotional response is puzzling. When…

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  • Love

Either Art or Splendor

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on February 14, 2021February 14, 2021

Exodus chapters 25:1-27:19 will be read in the synagogue this coming Sabbath, February 20, 2021.…

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  • Literature

Far More Grandly Expressed

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on February 7, 2021February 7, 2021

In his book, God’s Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible, author Adam Nicolson makes,…

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  • Philosophy

Grieved to the Heart

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on January 31, 2021January 31, 2021

Do creators have obligations to their creations? Do poets, for example, have any duty to…

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  • Hope

Whose Soul Is Attached to Yours

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on January 24, 2021January 24, 2021

On November 27, 1928, a wedding took place in Warsaw, Poland. At the time, Warsaw…

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  • Publications

Longing for Rain

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on January 16, 2021January 18, 2021

As the Hebrews, formerly slaves in Egypt, are making their way to the land of…

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  • Bible

Befehl ist Befehl

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on January 10, 2021January 12, 2021

In ordinary times, the Kriyas haTorah [“Reading of the Torah”] occurs publicly in the synagogue…

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  • Beginnings

Barkis is Willing

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on January 3, 2021January 4, 2021

I spent many delightful hours one summer reading David Copperfield to Mrs. Vera Wardner Dougan…

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  • Poetry

Silent, upon a Peak in Darien

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on December 27, 2020December 27, 2020

In the summer of 1815, the poet John Keats and his friend Charles Cowden Clarke…

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