From the Sources by Eliezer Segal: Sinai with subtitles
By Eliezer Segal (AJNews) – According to Jewish tradition, the revelation at Mount Sinai was a unique and unprecedented event. The Bible describes the encounter…
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From the sources by Eliezer Segal: Where the wild things were
by Eliezer Segal (AJNews) – What exactly was the fourth of the ten plagues that were inflicted upon the Egyptians? It goes by the Hebrew…
From the sources by Eliezer Segal: Will the real Ahasuerus please stand up
By Eliezer Segal (AJNews) – Once upon a time, one of the foremost Jewish communities in the world was found in a land whose head…
From the Sources by Eliezer Segal: Napoleonic Codes
by Eliezer Segal (AJNews) – I recently reread Tolstoy’s War and Peace. When reading literary classics, I am often searching for a Jewish angle that…
From the sources by Eliezer Segal: Of vanities and vehicles
by Eliezer Segal (AJNews) – Jewish thinkers have long been puzzled by the rabbis’ choice of the book of Kohelet [Ecclesiastes] as the designated reading…