The Well That Was Always There
(Parshat Vayeira, Genesis 21:14-21) Hagar and Ishmael are dying of thirst in the desert. In her despair, Hagar places her son under a bush and
November 6, 2025 / 15 Heshvan 5786
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Ishmael
The Exclusion Principle
Like most Jewish families worldwide, last Shabbat, the conversation revolved around the situation in the Middle East and the war in Gaza. The question was,
November 5, 2023 / 21 Heshvan 5784
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Jacob and Esau—Thermodynamics of Order and Chaos
And these are the chronicles of Isaac… (Genesis 25:19) So Esau went unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives that he had Mahalath the daughter
November 23, 2020 / 7 Kislev 5781
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Joseph and His Brothers
I grew up in Russia and was raised on the metric system based on decimal arithmetic. When we immigrated to the U.S., I had to
December 14, 2014 / 22 Kislev 5775
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