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Why Was Miriam Punished Twice?
A necessary reevaluation of one of the Torah's trickiest and most distracting stories
Jun 11
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Mark Glass
May 2025
The Most Important Day of the Year That You’ve Never Heard Of
And the strangest quirk of the Jewish calendar
May 28
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Mark Glass
Why Rabbis Avoid the Real Answers
Exploring the one aspect of Judaism more unpopular than Kitniyot
May 21
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Mark Glass
Why Do Rabbis Give Such Bad Answers to So Many Questions?!
When our acceptance of Jewish law gets subverted
May 14
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Mark Glass
Why is a Goat-Demon Central to Yom Kippur?!
No, that wasn't a typo
May 7
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Mark Glass
April 2025
Why Tazria is More Than Just "Ew, Women are Icky"
When the 21st century makes it impossible to understand things
Apr 30
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Mark Glass
Why Did Nadav and Avihu Die?
A radically different understanding emerging from the Torah's wider narrative
Apr 23
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Mark Glass
We Hate Egypt, So We Won't Ate Egypt
A terrible title for a transformative idea
Apr 10
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Mark Glass
Why are Esav (and Lot) at the Seder?
Why the Haggadah encourages a strange sidebar
Apr 9
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Mark Glass
The Meal & Maggid
Along side Qontroversial Questions on the Parashah I’m also going to be sending out eight Haggadah ideas in the run up to Pesaḥ
Apr 8
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Mark Glass
The Mini-Maggid That Begins Hallel
Along side Qontroversial Questions on the Parashah I’m also going to be sending out eight Haggadah ideas in the run up to Pesaḥ
Apr 6
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Mark Glass
The Theological Statements of the Seder
Along side Qontroversial Questions on the Parashah I’m also going to be sending out eight Haggadah ideas in the run up to Pesaḥ
Apr 3
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Mark Glass
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