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Why Was Miriam Punished Twice?

The Most Important Day of the Year That You’ve Never Heard Of

Why Rabbis Avoid the Real Answers

Why Do Rabbis Give Such Bad Answers to So Many Questions?!

Why is a Goat-Demon Central to Yom Kippur?!

Why Tazria is More Than Just "Ew, Women are Icky"

Why Did Nadav and Avihu Die?

We Hate Egypt, So We Won't Ate Egypt

Why are Esav (and Lot) at the Seder?

The Meal & Maggid

The Mini-Maggid That Begins Hallel

The Theological Statements of the Seder

Sefer Vayikra: Do You Even Go Here?

Pharaoh's Feather and the Catharsis of the Seder

The Rehabilitation of our Slavery

Why Judaism Cannot Tolerate the Child Who Does Not Know How to Ask

When the Way to Ask God Questions is Broken

The Haggadah's Attempt at Psychological Sensitivity

Wait, the Mishkan Wasn't Covered with Dead Rainbow Unicorn Skin?!

Why Mordechai's Jewishness is a Political Statement

What if Haman wasn't from Amalek?

Wait, God Commanded (Anti-)Idols to be Placed in the Tabernacle?!

The Mistake We Make When Reading the Torah

My Mission Statement

Judaism Isn’t a Pixar Movie

Stop Making the Ten Plagues Believable

Were the Ten Plagues Just Natural Phenomena?

Moshe's Name Makes No Sense – Until We Realize It Isn't Jewish

Genghis Khan & The Meaning of Asara be-Tevet

Is the Hanukkah Story Really "Judaism vs. Greece?"

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