Your Land is Not Your Land: Word #30

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     Earth ארץ   I rent. I’ve been a renter of real estate for my entire […]

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I Am No Abomination:Rewritten Bar Mitzvah Speech, 30 years later. Word #28

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 abomination תועבה This week marks my 44th birthday, and this week’s Torah portion, Achre Mot-Kedoshim, is the […]

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Etty’s Legacy: Our One Moral Duty. Word #27

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 outside בחוץ Monday morning,10am, siren pierces the sky –  Holocaust Commemoration Day and everybody stands still for […]

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What the Prez is Passing Over: Obama’s Public Rituals. Word 24

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 RITUAL תורת Loudspeaker carrying police cars woke me up on Wed. morning with instructions about our roads closing […]

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Before Birthright – there was Deathright? Burial in Zion. Word #12

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 Burial קבר Death is  big business. Especially, as I have learnt this week, in Israel.  Hundreds of […]

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