Sublime

to be a Jew is to cry out, even when silence would be safer, easier, and more convenient.

Hashem’s light even in a place seemingly devoid of it. In our own lives, we need to eliminate our safek, our Amalek, the nations and notions that attempt to force us to turn away from faith and alignment.

Chesed is resolute, strong, insistent, and fair.

of center and Israel’s center-right.

We are B’nei Yisrael because we are meant to live in this world, to deal in materialism, but to continually find ways to elevate it.

31 Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Israel? 32There was war between Asa and King Baasha of Israel all their days.

Book of Esther, in which the title character, who bears the Hebrew name Hadassah, becomes the queen of the Persian Empire and keeps her Jewish identity a secret—helped along by her new name, borrowed from the Persian goddess Ishtar.