Cut to the Chase: Moses, James Bond, Drama in DC: Word 25

WORD: A Word a Week from the World’s Best Seller. Follow the Annual Torah Re-Run Series with Amichai Lau-Lavie’s Newest Year-Long Blog. To subscribe via email click here. To listen to the audio version click here.   play chase ירדפו On the evening before Seder my father and I watch Skyfall, the latest James Bond movie, on […]

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How many storytellers to fix a light bulb? Word #22

WORD: A Word a Week from the World’s Best Seller. Follow the Annual Torah Re-Run Series with Amichai Lau-Lavie’s Newest Year-Long Blog. To subscribe via email click here. To listen to the audio version click here.   play GATHER ויקהל How many storytellers does it take to fix a light bulb? (as in, tell, together, […]

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The Choosing People, Not The Chosen People: Word #16

WORD: A Word a Week from the World’s Best Seller. Follow the Annual Torah Re-Run Series with Amichai Lau-Lavie’s Newest Year-Long Blog. To subscribe via email click here. To listen to the audio version click here.   play CHOOSE בחר The wheel chair access polling station at a school near my parents home was a […]

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Mirror, Mirror, on the (Western) Wall, who’s the… Word 15

WORD: A Word a Week from the World’s Best Seller. Follow the Annual Torah Re-Run Series with Amichai Lau-Lavie’s Newest Year-Long Blog. To subscribe via email click here. To listen to the audio version click here.     play   worship עבודה           The Western Wall is almost empty and pretty […]

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Harder to change your mind or have a change of heart? Word 14.

WORD: A Word a Week from the World’s Best Seller. Follow the Annual Torah Re-Run Series with Amichai Lau-Lavie’s Newest Year-Long Blog. To subscribe via email click here. To listen to the audio version click here.   play heavy כבד What’s harder-  change of heart or change of mind?  And how exactly are they different?  […]

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