Rabbi Paula Mack Drill: Devarim Motivations for Storytelling
Rabbi Mack comments on the tendency to retell events based on how we felt about them, including Moshe. She observes that for many of the…
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Rabbi Mack comments on the tendency to retell events based on how we felt about them, including Moshe. She observes that for many of the…
Jake Nussbaum writes about Masechet Avodah Zara 25a, which attributes 2 biblical verses to the Sefer haYashar. The question that the sages raise is: what…