Aryeh Lev Stollman
By Aryeh Lev Stollman
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Culture Family Reunion
Light Fell By Evan Fallenberg Soho Press, 229 pages, $22. Three times in the Babylonian Talmud we find the Aramaic expression nafal nehora — “light fell.” This is the light of a powerful physical beauty that behaves almost like matter, seemingly pulled down by gravitational force — a light that may kindle overwhelming desire. Sometimes…
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Culture Biblical Brains
And the serpent was more cunning than all the creatures of the field that the Lord God created. And he said to the woman, “Did God say: You shall not eat of any tree in the garden?’” — Genesis 3:1 And the Lord opened the mouth of the ass and she said to Balaam, “What…
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Culture Serpents, Seraphs and Memory
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Make a seraph and mount it on a standard…” [and so] Moses made a copper serpent and mounted it on a standard and when anyone was bitten by a serpent, he would look at the copper serpent and live. — Numbers 21:8-9 [King Hezekiah] also broke into pieces the…
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