Affliction
- 5785, Abraham, Affliction, Conflict, Flood, Hagar, High Holidays, Ishmael, Israel, Matriarchs, Memory, Middle East, Mourning, Psalms, Sarah, Secondary Wives, War
Seeking to be Seen
I have never been happier to study the “secondary wives,” an often-forgotten group of people, and when remembered, almost always misunderstood. Who can be blamed – there is a dearth of information, missing…
- Affliction, Discharge, Infection, Komps Kaos, Leprosy, Leviticus, Loneliness, Medicine, Metzora, Outcasts, Parsha, Plagues, Priests, Quarantine, Sickness, Skin Diseases, Society, Suffering, Vayikra
Quarantined
We don’t think very much about leprosy today. This “ancient” disease plagued people in the Bible (Tanakh), and later in the New Testament. Those who suffered from such a communicable disease were outcasts…
