Haskel and Deah


Articles by Haskel and Deah

Wise Fridays: The Role of Freedom

“It is precisely because of the central role of freedom in the value system of the Bible that the liberation ...

Wise Fridays: Do Not Despise an Egyptian

“‘Do not despise an Egyptian’…even though they threw your baby sons into the Nile. Why? Because they provided hospitality to ...

Wise Fridays: There Is No Life

There is no life without a task; no person without a talent; no place without a fragment of God’s light ...

Wise Fridays: How to Read the Torah

It is not my place to teach people how to read a chapter of Tanakh because the keys to this ...

Wise Fridays: The Central Paradigm

The central paradigm of Jewish religion is redemption. According to the Bible, the human being is created in the image ...

Wise Fridays: After My Death

Raba said to Rav Papa and to Rav Huna the son of Rav Joshua: When a legal decision of mine ...

An Introduction to Wise Fridays

Hi! I’m Deah. Yes, my name does happen to be the same as the Hebrew word for “knowledge” — thank ...