Posts Tagged: story of joseph
Goodbye to 2020, and Looking Hopefully Ahead
On the first night of Pesach, we begin our Seder by asking Mah Nishtana Halayla Hazeh Mikol Haleilot? -- “why is this night different from...
The Power of an Oath
Over the past few decades, a new area of psychological research has emerged that has changed the way that psychologists understand a very familiar aspect of human...
What Really Separates Humans From Animals
Animals communicating with each other -- and with humans -- have always been a feature of literary fiction. Over the last century, this has spilled...
The Story of Joseph, Hanukkah — and Finding the Light
Although ancient Egypt and ancient Greece coexisted for well over a millennium, they were different in almost every respect. Egyptian civilization emerged at the dawn...
The Rebirth of Hebrew
One of the most remarkable phenomena to have occurred in modern times is the rebirth of Hebrew as a spoken language. Although Hebrew was painstakingly...
