Song of Songs is a poetic masterpiece. It has captivated readers for centuries with its sensual and intense language. Written by King Solomon, the book uses the metaphor of an estranged lover...
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A Sacred Love Story
Song of Songs, read on the holiday of Passover, is written as a love story between a woman and her beloved. It describes a romantic relationship, often using very sensual language. At first glance,...
Chasing the King
By Dina Cohn A man who had been brought to England on the Kindertransport, a rescue mission that saved Jewish children from Nazi Germany, once recounted a story that happened happened at the...
The Foundations of Royalty
By Rabbi Tuly Weisz According to the Talmudic sage Rabbi Zeira, the Book of Ruth was included in Hebrew scripture in order “To teach us the greatness of the reward for acts of lovingkindness."...
The Mother of Redemption
By Rabbi Tuly Weisz The Book of Ruth is a story of redemption. By marrying Ruth, Boaz redeems her and her former husband by carrying on his family name, and also redeems the property that belonged...
An Unlikely Source of Kindness
By Rabbi Tuly Weisz By declaring her allegiance to God and the Jewish people, Ruth became one of a small number of righteous non-Jews in the Bible who stand out for recognizing God. Jethro, for...
Choosing Kindness
By Rabbi Tuly Weisz The books of the Writings were written through divine inspiration, without direct communication from God. Since these works were not written through direct communication with...
A Land of Kindness
By Rabbi Tuly Weisz The story of Ruth opens with a famine in the Land of Israel which causes a man, Elimelech, to move his family from Israel to the plains of Moab. This is not the first time we...
Punished for Abandoning the Land
By Rabbi Tuly Weisz Though it is never explicitly discussed, the Land of Israel is front and center in the Book of Ruth. While the primary characters in this short book do not travel extensively,...
Vayikra – Yeast, Honey, and Salt
By telling us that all offerings must include salt and that no offerings may include honey, the Torah teaches us a powerful lesson about our own worship of God.
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The Israel Bible will succeed in helping readers of Tanakh better understand its geographical context and better perceive some of its contemporary resonances.
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