(Ishmael’s bow and Abraham’s tamarisk: Imagining an end to perpetual conflict; October 2025)
Category: Yom Kippur
Wormwood and Self-Examination
Self justification can lead us down the road from chet to zadon, from carelessness to willful defiance, from rosh to la’anah.
Jonah and the Castor Bean
Jonah’s shade plant provides a graphic metaphor for the message of this Biblical book.