For Friday Night

By Tali Loewenthal

Do we have the power to change our own lives? Or are we entirely the product of our environment? A timely lesson from Rebecca.

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The Tent and the Field

By Tali Loewenthal

Jewish teaching sees the life of the individual as expressing an inner struggle. One part of the person relates to Nature--untamed, uncontrolled, like natural forests and unclaimed fields. The other part has a Divine quality, expressing G-d Who created nature in order to make it His dwelling...

Esau the Transformer

By Tali Loewenthal

Esau was the bad guy, right? So why did his father, the patriarch Isaac, prefer him over his saintly brother Jacob?

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Esau and His Wives

By Tali Loewenthal

Esau’s Hittite wives, although they were in Isaac’s home, offered incense to idols. Rashi says that the smoke of this incense caused Isaac’s blindness.

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