Yitz Greenberg
By Yitz Greenberg
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Community In the story of Noah, a model of partnership with God
The Torah inherited a Mesopotamian cultural consensus that a Great Deluge had wiped out almost all of humanity. In the Gilgamesh epic, the gods (Anu and Enlil) inflict this catastrophe arbitrarily in a display of their power, but later defend their actions both as deserved punishment and designed to curb population growth. According to the…
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Community In Bereishit, Creation draws us deeper.
Rashi famously suggests that if the Torah is primarily a book of laws — after all, it contains hundreds of laws — then the Five Books of Moses should start with the first law given to the whole people of Israel (in Exodus 12:1-2, we are told: “This month [Nissan] is the first of the…
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Life Bintel Brief: Blu and Yitz Greenberg Say Don’t ‘Get’ Revenge on Your Ex
Dear Blu and Yitz, On lawyer’s advice, my (ex-)wife refuses to accept a get (yet the divorce is all her doing), and for over 10 years refuses me regular visits with our children. (The visits are irregular, essentially when she feels like it, on her lawyer’s advice.) My question is, when she decides she wants…
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Life Bintel Brief: Blu and Yitz Greenberg Say ‘Think Twice’ Before Wishing the Kids Had Married Non-Jews
Dear Blu and Yitz, All of my daughters married Jewish boys. But sometimes I think it might have been better had two of them married non-Jewish boys who would at least have been supportive of their wives trying to bring some form of Judaism into their homes and into the lives of their children. One…
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