Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel
We all love bee honey. No Rosh Hashanah meal would be complete without it. Yet, in this week’s Torah portion of Shemini, we find ourselves with a conundrum that has puzzled many rabbinic minds since the days of Late Antiquity. I am referring to the verse in Leviticus, “But all other winged insects that have four feet are detestable to you” (Lev. 11:23). Maimonides explains, “Honey made from bees and ...
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Ghost Riders: Inside Israel’s Undercover War Against Suicide Terrorism by Samuel Katz - Publisher: Berkley (2016) ISBN: 1592409016-Price (Amazon) $18.00-Rated: 5*
Reviewed by Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel
There is hardly a day when we don’t read another story about a terrorist attack. For the most part, Radical Islam has demonstrated an almost uncanny ability to raise itself from the ashes of death. Whenever I read about the latest terrorist attack, I cannot help but think about ...
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Author: Daniel Klein(editor and trans.) and Samuel David Luzzato: Shadal on Exodus: Samuel David Luzzatto’s Interpretation of the Book of Shemot . Kodesh Press, 2015ISBN-13: 978-0692522066. Price: $29.95. Rating ***** — Reviewer: Rabbi Dr. Michael Leo Samuel
CHULA VISTA, California — One of the most remarkable modern day exegetes of the 19th century was the Italian biblical commentator, Samuel David ...
The Golden Age of Islam extended from the 8th century to the 13th century, when much of the historically Islamic world embraced a flowering of scientific, economic and cultural prosperity until the time of the Mongol conquest of Baghdad in 1258 CE , when the Islamic Golden Age officially ended. Before that time, Islam was vastly ahead of their counterparts in Europe, and excelled in just about every ancient secular and ...
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Book Review: God and Politics in Esther-
Yoram Hazony: Title: God and Politics in Esther 2nd Edition. Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 2nd edition (2015)
ISBN-10: 1107583454; Price $18.27 on Amazon. Rating ***** out of 5 Stars.
Reviewer: Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel
Yoram Hazony’s exposition of the Book of Esther is priceless. In my Judaism 101 class, everyone read a little bit from God and Politics in Esther and the discussions that ensued made the ...
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