Rabbi Michael Leo SamuelAs I begin my day, I wonder …. Maybe Mark Twain was right when he said, “Man was made at the end of the week’s work, when God was tired!”
At times it seems as though the world is reverting to a more atavistic state of its evolutionary history. Yet, unlike the denizens of nature, human evolution is unique in that humankind is capable of remapping its evolutionary trajectory. Every faith community has a sacred task at hand-to combat the enemy ...
Learn More ShareCommenting on the verse, “Now, when Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them by way of the Philistines’ land, though this was the nearest; for he thought, should the people see that they would have to fight, they might change their minds and return to Egypt” (Exod. 13:17).
This passage has always bothered me. The rational given by the biblical narrator is irrelevant. Had God led the Israelites directly to the Promised Land, there would never have been ...
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