At today’s Ramaz Liaision Committee meeting, the first topic up was whether the school should provide a web-based facility for parents to create 5-minute appointments with the teachers they wish to see. The hope would be to improve the process by reducing the time spent standing in line waiting to see teachers. We have used [...]
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Genesis 32:4-5 - Ya’akov sent messengers to his brother Eisav, to the land of Seir in the field of Edom. He instructed them saying, thus shall you say: “To my lord Eisav, your servant Ya’akov says, ‘I have lived with Lavan until now…”
The cantillation markings in the Masoretic text put the sentence this way: He [...]
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Many years ago I read my father’s copy of ‘The Art of Biblical Narrative‘ by Prof. Robert Alter, and was immediately hooked. Alter concerns himself with analyzing the Bible as an enduring work of literature. To my mind, his ideas are compatible with a traditional outlook and understanding of the Torah (although not presented in [...]
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