Last Sunday, this column introduced the path of the well-trained servant from the “Servant of the Lord” passages found in Isaiah. The just servant posed a question, “Who will dispute my right?” (Is 50 ...

One should expect that Moshe’s rise to the role of prophet/king and savior of his people should be caste as extraordinary. He was born in unusual times, under unusual circumstances and if the story, ...

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Sin is not transferable from father to son; or from Adam to us. Can a man born of woman be righteous? One of Job’s friends, Eliphaz, does not think so. He asks cynically: “What is man, that he could ...

One day in the year 1570, Rabbi Haim Vital walked from Safed to the cave where Abbaye and Rava — Babylonian sages — were buried. Stopping along the way to practice the meditative prayer he wanted to ...

Investigating the literature on this subject yields a teasingly twofold result. Traditionally, the two personality categories have been examined in a predominately theological light. They’re now, ...

The Orwells return with a new single, "The Righteous One," and it was just debuted by Zane Lowe. We've got the premiere of the video, which features considerably less air humping than their appearance ...