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The Telling

Responses to the pesach traditions post were extremely maggid-pilled. Here are a few that especially tickled my fancy:

@jewelcat16

I used to do a 1-person performance of the story. Might bring it back.

@thatrandombookworm

#we do a passover play for magid its rlly fun

@42questionsandaloafofbread

Telling the story of Passover is always so fun, I love telling my favorite midrash about Moses (related to chicken soup)

What's the Moshe chicken soup midrash? Inquiring Jewish minds wish to know!

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The Snake at the Mouth of the Cave by Moshe Sokol

The Snake at the Mouth of the Cave by Moshe Sokol

In addition to the halakhic portions of the Talmud, there is also a great amount of aggadic narratives interspersed throughout the talmudic text – these are the non-halakhic teachings about theology, ethics, spirituality, psychology, health, and many other topics. This work offers commentary and scholarship on aggada, and especially about that portion of aggada in which the rabbis tell stories.

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Lamentations: Faith in a Turbulent World by Yael Ziegler

Lamentations: Faith in a Turbulent World by Yael Ziegler

How do people progress from despair to hope? How does one maintain faith in God’s justice in a world that seems cruel and unfair? What is the nature of Israel’s culpability and to what degree does sinfulness factor in Israel’s calamities? What is the nation’s relationship to its land, to Jerusalem, and to the outside world? Artfully combining traditional and academic scholarship, Dr. Yael Ziegler…

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Ani Maamin: Biblical Criticism, Historical Truth, and the Thirteen Principles of Faith by Joshua Berman For two centuries the academic study of the Bible has confronted the believing Jew with the most challenging of questions: Are the accounts of the Tanakh historically accurate?

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To This Very Day: Fundamental Questions in the Bible Study by Amnon Bazak In recent generations, there has been a renaissance of Tanakh study among Jewry in general, and in the study halls of the Religious-Zionist community in particular.

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Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah: Lights in the Valley by Yaakov Beasley Master teacher Rabbi Yaakov Beasley carefully reveals the messages and meanings of these often unfamiliar books of the Twelve Minor Prophets: Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah.

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Faith After the Holocaust by Eliezer Berkovits Rabbi Dr. Eliezer Berkovits's Faith after the Holocaust - recognized as a classic immediately upon publication - boldly and forthrightly addresses the most theologically fraught question of our times: God's noninterference in the Holocaust. With great honesty, erudition, and philosophical depth, this treatise shows 'how man may affirm his faith even when confronted with God's awesome silence.'

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Covenant & Conversation: Deuteronomy: Renewal of the Sinai Covenant by Jonathan Sacks In this second volume of his long-anticipated five-volume collection of parashat hashavua commentaries, Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks explores these intersections as they relate to universal concerns of freedom, love, responsibility, identity, and destiny.