Category: A Random Walk With Rashi

A Random Walk With Rashi: Adrift Without Punctuation

A Random Walk With Rashi: Adrift Without Punctuation

Love means never having to say you’re it, son.

A Random Walk With Rashi: When Rashi’s Missing

A Random Walk With Rashi: When Rashi’s Missing

Join us as we tackle a verse devoid of Rashi’s insights.

A Random Walk With Rashi: Salubrious and Sagacious

A Random Walk With Rashi: Salubrious and Sagacious

We continue with Abraham and Issac. This week we tackle more of the Akedah, the binding of Isaac.

A Random Walk With Rashi: Neither Here Nor There

A Random Walk With Rashi: Neither Here Nor There

Moriah-gate: What Did Abraham Know, and When Did He Know It ?

A Random Walk With Rashi: Into The Fog Guided Only By Faith

A Random Walk With Rashi: Into The Fog Guided Only By Faith

Barreling down a biblical highway with only two outcomes to be had.

A Random Walk With Rashi: The Akedah? It’s About Isaac

A Random Walk With Rashi: The Akedah? It’s About Isaac

We turn our focus back on Abraham, as we divert our gaze toward Israel.

A Random Walk With Rashi: Careening Our Way Through Genesis May Be More Like It

A Random Walk With Rashi: Careening Our Way Through Genesis May Be More Like It

Join us as we leave Ishmael, and align our study group with the verses traditionally read on the High Holidays. Buckle up, place your biblical tray tables in their upright positions, and let’s begin!

A Random Walk With Rashi: On the Precipice of Pericope

A Random Walk With Rashi: On the Precipice of Pericope

“We pick things up where Hagar and her son Ishmael have been banished from Gerar, and have just plotzed from exhaustion in the desert,” begins Phil’s humorous summary of Rashi’s thoughts. Join him.

A Random Walk With Rashi: Ain’t Grammar Great?

A Random Walk With Rashi: Ain’t Grammar Great?

Our G-d who art in Hendiadys, Hapox Legonimen be thy name.

A Random Walk With Rashi: Hagar and the Wailers

A Random Walk With Rashi: Hagar and the Wailers

A Teleological Suspension of the Ethical (trust me).

A Random Walk With Rashi: Connecting the Dots

A Random Walk With Rashi: Connecting the Dots

From toi, toi, toi (kina hora) to Torah, Torah, Torah.

A Random Walk With Rashi – Beware the Ides of Ishmael

A Random Walk With Rashi – Beware the Ides of Ishmael

Parallel lives, chiastic stories, and wondering Jews.

A Random Walk With Rashi – New Perennial Insights

A Random Walk With Rashi – New Perennial Insights

Up The Down Spiral Curriculum.

A Random Walk With Rashi –What Hammurabi Says, And All The More So

A Random Walk With Rashi –What Hammurabi Says, And All The More So

Anybody Want To Give This One a Pshat?

A Random Walk With Rashi – Sarah Seethes While Isaac Teethes

A Random Walk With Rashi – Sarah Seethes While Isaac Teethes

What Went On In That Biblical Shower? You Decide

A Random Walk With Rashi: Biblical Horseplay

A Random Walk With Rashi: Biblical Horseplay

How many variations on yud, tzadi, chet, kuf can you find?

A Random Walk With Rashi: Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated!

A Random Walk With Rashi: Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated!

Abraham and Sarah request the honor of your presence at a feast to celebrate the weaning of their son, Isaac. BYOB.

A Random Walk With Rashi: With Radical Amazement

A Random Walk With Rashi: With Radical Amazement

Join us as we reconvene and find Sarah in a shtik nachas.

A Random Walk With Rashi:  Goodfathers

A Random Walk With Rashi: Goodfathers

“Funny how? I mean, funny like I’m a clown? I amuse you? I make you laugh? How am I funny? Tell me. Tell me what’s funny.”

A Random Walk With Rashi:  You Run the Numbers

A Random Walk With Rashi: You Run the Numbers

Fred and Adele meet Fred and Ginger.

A Random Walk With Rashi:  Gnomons R Us

A Random Walk With Rashi: Gnomons R Us

Previously, on Gerar Law – Abimelech, Sarah, orifices, intercessory prayer, Isaac. You know the routine.