Haskel and Deah
Articles by Haskel and Deah
Wise Fridays: The Role of Freedom
“It is precisely because of the central role of freedom in the value system of the Bible that the liberation ...
Wise Fridays: Do Not Despise an Egyptian
“‘Do not despise an Egyptian’…even though they threw your baby sons into the Nile. Why? Because they provided hospitality to ...
Wise Fridays: There Is No Life
There is no life without a task; no person without a talent; no place without a fragment of God’s light ...
Wise Fridays: How to Read the Torah
It is not my place to teach people how to read a chapter of Tanakh because the keys to this ...
Wise Fridays: The Central Paradigm
The central paradigm of Jewish religion is redemption. According to the Bible, the human being is created in the image ...
Wise Fridays: After My Death
Raba said to Rav Papa and to Rav Huna the son of Rav Joshua: When a legal decision of mine ...
An Introduction to Wise Fridays
Hi! I’m Deah. Yes, my name does happen to be the same as the Hebrew word for “knowledge” — thank ...