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Genesis as the Story of Every Human Life: Part 1
Part 1: In the Beginning: Conception and Innocence A part of the ‘On Second Thought‘ series By: Ezra Nadav Genesis Is Our Story Too: A New Series on Growth, Loss, and Becoming. What if Genesis wasn’t just a story about the world’s beginning, but about your beginning too? What if its pages didn’t just tell…
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It’s Not ‘Offensive,’ It’s a Threat.
A part of the ‘Not Quite What You Meant’ series By: Ezra Nadav We need to start calling it what it is. When someone hangs a Nazi flag in a suburban window, scrawls a swastika on a public bench, or wears a patch glorifying white supremacy, the typical response, especially in polite, progressive circles, is…
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What I’ve Learned by Attempting to Learn Biblical Hebrew
Why I Now Read Slower, Complain Less, and Love the Torah More From the ‘On Second Thought’ series: By Ezra Nadav Learning Hebrew with dyslexia and an auditory processing disorder has been anything but easy. But it has changed the way I relate to sacred text, to tradition and to myself. When I first set…
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The Stranger as Neighbour: Love, Friendship, and the Refusal to Hate: Part 2
‘For You Were Strangers in the Land of Egypt’ from the ‘On Second Thought’ series By: Ezra Nadav Recap of Part 1: Recognising the Stranger In Part 1, we explored the foundational Torah commandments that urge us to remember our shared experience of being strangers in Egypt. These verses call us to see and honour…
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Who Is the Stranger? A Modern Reflection: Part 1
‘For You Were Strangers in the Land of Egypt’ from the ‘On Second Thought’ series By: Ezra Nadav Series Summary: Part 1: Who Is the Stranger? A Modern Reflection In this first part of a three-part series, we explore the Torah’s moral urgency around how we treat “the stranger”—a term that appears in at least…
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