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1 min read 2021-12-03 07:00:46

Questions – A poem for Parsha Miketz

When the entire land of Egypt hungered, the people cried out to Pharaoh for bread -Genesis 41:5 What sound does the call make? Whose ears is it

1 min read 2021-11-19 07:00:27

But Esau said, “I have plenty, my brother; let what you have remain yours.” -Genesis 33:9 We, in the land of plenty are natural-born

1 min read 2021-04-16 06:00:30

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

2 min read 2021-04-09 06:00:00

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

1 min read 2021-03-26 06:00:05

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

1 min read 2021-03-12 07:00:38

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 2021-02-26 07:00:00

And on its bottom hem you shall make pomegranates Exodus 28:33 In our home, which will, soon no longer be our home, we planted Biblical fruits in all

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

1 min read 2021-02-12 07:00:21

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

1 min read 2021-02-05 07:00:04

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

1 min read 2021-01-22 07:00:56

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

1 min read 2021-01-15 07:00:48

But Moses said before the Lord, “Behold, I am of closed lips; so how will Pharaoh hearken to me?” Exodus 6:30 Closed lips – Is it a medical

2 min read 2021-01-08 07:00:30

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

1 min read 2021-01-01 07:00:13

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

1 min read 2020-12-25 07:00:32

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