Rabbi Michael Leo SamuelZombies climbing a wall — scene from World War Z.
I must be honest with you. I am an aficionado for zombie movies. Brad Pitt’s new zombie film, “World War Z” is based on Max Brooks popular trilogy by the same name. Horror films often give us a rare opportunity to examine our deepest questions about the nature of our existence, of life and death, and life beyond death.
But ...
As a child of the early sixties, I could remember watching the George Reeves’ Adventures of Superman show on television.
Back then, the show did not feature super-sized villains like those that we have grown used to seeing over the past thirty years or so. No, Superman generally fought against a garden variety of thugs, scientists with super weapons, e.g., a hypnotizing machines, robots, Episodes follow Superman as he battles gangsters, ...
So many problems in our society are because of the resentment that we have allowed to fill our lives with bitterness and a perceive sense of self-righteousness. While we cannot change the events of the past that have brought us sadness, we can liberate ourselves from the pain these memories bring us in the present.
Liberation is a spiritual process. It begins with ...
Dr. Paul Shrell-Fox is someone I admire. As a clinical psychologist and researcher living in Israel, he has researched a social and religious phenomenon about a subject that many of us rabbis would sooner deny than admit: there are an increasing number of Orthodox and Conservative atheist rabbis! By “Orthodox,” I do not necessarily mean your typical Modern Orthodox rabbi. ...
The Egyptians Get Rid of a Modern Day Pharaoh (July 6th, 2013)
The following are the stages by which the Israelites journeyed up by companies from the land of Egypt under the guidance of Moses and Aaron. - (Numbers 33:1)
The biblical narrator lists 42 stopping points beginning with Egypt. Some of the mystical commentaries make a penetrating observation: The journey toward the Promised Land did not occur in one stage, but in forty-two stages.
Why did it take so ...
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