Lawrence Taylor’s Latest Super Bowl: Weekly Spark“I know everything about football. I know what every player is supposed to do. I can see the play before it happens. I know how to manage a game.
The problem with me is sometimes managing my life. As easy as football is… is as hard as life is.” Former NY Giant and Hall of Fame [...]
Denial at the Nile: Weekly SparkG-d tells Moshe to inform Pharoah of the impending plague of blood at Pharoah’s morning visit to the Nile. Why then and there?
Pharoah is in denial (pun intended) - “I am a god who has no need for the bathroom.” (He would relieve himself every day before the sun rose and hold his bowels – [...]
The Scientific Foreknowledge of the Jewish SagesBright Nebula. Photo: European Southern Observatory.
There is something tantalizing in the notion that contrary to popular belief, ancient people may have been in possession of a far greater level of insight about the nature of reality than they have generally been given credit for. Though there is the danger for this exploration to rapidly veer [...]
(Don’t) Work Like an Egyptian: Weekly SparkThe Egyptians strove to destroy the Jewish people with avodas parech: “work of crumbling.” What’s the principle?
The Talmud explains that such work includes two aspects:
1) no purpose – “dig a 10 foot hole and when you’re done fill it up and then redig it, etc.”
2) no completion – “dig here until I tell you to stop.”
The best way [...]
