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As a #Christian, the Exodus is my story of divine liberation and hope. As an #Egyptian, it casts my homeland as the oppressor of God’s people—forcing me to wrestle with faith and identity. thetorah.com/article/when-t…

“The Exodus ended Pharaoh’s rule but not the human tendency to recreate domination. We remain enslaved whenever fear or unaccountable power shapes our decisions.” — Philip Kahn

In what ways are we still enslaved—and what would real freedom look like today, both personally and collectively? #Passover #Seder thetorah.com/article/in-sea…

Pig’s blood, crushed bird heads, animal fat, fine oils—ancient rituals marked doorways to keep danger out. The Torah takes that raw practice and turns it into a sign for YHWH on the night of the Exodus. Same ritual, new meaning—and maybe more beneath the surface. thetorah.com/article/blood-…

A single semester in college led to a crisis of faith and identity thetorah.com/blogs/who-wrot…

Blame the Satan!😈 Why would God make righteous people suffer just to test their faithfulness? With Job, the Bible is explicit that it was in response to Satan’s challenge, but what about Abraham? thetorah.com/article/the-sa…

In 1891, Chaim Zelig Slonimski argued that the Chanukah oil miracle was never meant as history—invoking Maimonides. The backlash came from Hasidim, modernizers, and even Zionists. thetorah.com/article/the-ch…

The brothers’ hatred for Joseph began with decades of family wounds that made his dreams unbearable. #familydynamics thetorah.com/article/why-th…

Job, overwhelmed by suffering, imagines the moments from womb to nursing in which he wishes he had died. His lament, however, preserves surprising evidence about how women once gave birth. thetorah.com/article/birth-…

Jacob is renamed Israel after wrestling a divine being. The Torah then forbids eating the sciatic nerve—a law that rarely shaped Jewish identity. Yet in medieval China, the Kaifeng Jews made this obscure rule their defining name. thetorah.com/article/the-se…

Sarah is absent from the #Bible account of Isaac’s binding, and there’s no hint Abraham told her. Would she have stood with him, questioned him, or been shattered by it? #Judaism #Christianity #Isalm thetorah.com/article/sarahs…

After escaping Sodom, Lot and his daughters hide out in a cave. Believing they were the last humans on earth, the daughters get their father drunk, and conceive children with him while he is asleep. But since when do daughters r-a-p-e their fathers? thetorah.com/article/lot-se…

Does #circumcision maim the body… or perfect it? thetorah.com/article/circum…

Does it matter if Abraham never existed? Is the Torah God’s report on history or humanity’s story of discovering God? thetorah.com/article/abraha…

After 130 years, a new #DocumentaryHypothesis Torah is in print! thetorah.com/store/chumash-…

The Bible’s language? Canaanite, Hebrew, Judahite, or the holy tongue? What did Jews and Samaritans actually call it?thetorah.com/article/the-bi…