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2 min read 2021-04-30 06:00:08

My Plant Based Renaissance — A poem for Torah Portion Emor

An ox or sheep you shall not slaughter it and its offspring in one day. -Leviticus 22:28 When I was a boy I used to go fishing at the Erie Canal in

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Therefore, I said to the children of Israel: None of you shall eat blood Leviticus 17:12 Rest assured, God, Adonai, Holy One Unseen Savior, Invisible

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If a man loses the hair on [the back of] his head, he is bald. He is clean. Leviticus 13:40 No one complains when babies are bald but let a few

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Do not drink wine that will lead to intoxication Leviticus 10:9 I didn’t drink, for no reason at all for more decades than I can remember. I think

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For I have taken the breast of the waving and the thigh of the elevation from the children of Israel Leviticus 7:34 It makes me wonder what unique

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And you shall salt every one of your meal offering sacrifices with salt, and you shall not omit the salt… Leviticus 2:13 If there’s one thing

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And he made the menorah of pure gold; of hammered work he made the menorah Exodus 37:17 He is Bezalel, an artist. Because the foundation of any good

1 min read 2021-02-19 07:00:55

And you shall make a menorah of pure gold. Exodus 25:31 When the first thing we were asked to make required us to use solid gold, gold

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After Exodus 22:4-26 Some of our best laws are here – If a fire goes forth and finds thorns… …then congratulate the fire for living above its

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Moses obeyed his father in law, and he did all that he said. Exodus 18:24 When I first met my father-in-law naturally, he was suspicious. Who was

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And also our cattle will go with us; not a [single] hoof will remain Exodus 10:26 In the shadow of the darkest dark moments before the final

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He turned this way and that way, and he saw that there was no man; so he struck the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. Exodus 2:12 Once in a Kmart in

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And Israel said to Joseph, “Behold, I am going to die… …And I have given you one portion over your brothers…” Genesis 48:21-22 Someone I

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And he wept out loud, so the Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard. Genesis 45:2 It doesn’t take much to get me to weep. A minor chord in

1 min read 2020-12-18 07:00:12

And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh the king of Egypt Genesis 41:46 When I was thirty years old, I had overcome nothing. It