Peretz Rodman
By Peretz Rodman
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News If Only You Would Listen
Some people pre-plan their funerals, right down to locking in today’s price for the whole deal by pre-paying as well. This week’s portion begins with a veritable infomercial for that practice, a demonstration of what can go wrong if you leave the final arrangements for their due time. At Sarah’s death in the opening verse…
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News Squelching Your Sense of Justice and Decency
First Day of Rosh Hashana: Genesis 21:1–34; Numbers 29:1–6; Second Day: Genesis 22:1–24, Numbers 29:1–6. * * *| ‘Pray take your son, your only-one, whom you love, Isaac, and go forth to the land of Moriah, and bring him up there as a sacrifice…” (Genesis 22:2). This bone-chilling scene opener might seem more apt in…
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News A Blue Tallit as a Red Herring
Ever since Sinai, Moses has been promulgating laws. A midrash informs us that Korah, the rebel leader from next week’s Torah portion, has a plan: If even just a few of those regulations, whose intricate details are assumed to be weighted with significance, can be made to appear capricious and nonsensical, the people may begin…
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