Objective Reality

Is she spinning clockwise or counter-clockwise?
… Yep.
The right side of your brain sees her spinning clockwise, and the left side sees her spinning counter-clockwise. So you will instinctively see her spinning relative to that side of your brain with which you are stronger. But if you focus you can switch it.
There are so many things [...]

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Turn the bullhorn around

Rabbi Abraham Cohen’s book Everyman’s Talmud speaks on the Doctrine of God in the first chapter. On page 23 it reads as follows:
“Not only did the Rabbis believe in this perfect holiness of God, but they insisted that it was the paramount duty of the Jew to guard it from profanation by discreditable conduct on [...]

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Love Wins

A friend of mine, Sarah Davis, went to Uganda last summer and took this picture… pretty on point.

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In Focus

A friend of mine, Linnea Kohl, who lives in Jordan sent me this picture that her mom took on a trip to Jerusalem and I thought that it was absolutely brilliant.

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Legends of Abraham and Jesus

It is no surprise that, as the Torah is partly an Oral Tradition of stories passed down from generation to generation, such tradition is not lost outside of the Torah. Rabbinical stories and legends about the patriarchs have been preserved and continue to be told. Here is one such ancient legend about Abraham as expressed [...]

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Elohim: bara-ruwach-amar

1 In the beginning God (Elohim) created (bara) the heavens and the earth.
2 And the earth was formless and void, and the darkness was over the surface of the deep; and the Spirit of God (Ruwach) was moving over the surface of the waters.
3 Then God said(amar), “Let there be light”; and there was light.
God [...]

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