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Ezra's ordinances.

Righting a wrong requires two parties.

Impurity surprises.

The word "seder" means order and it refers to these building blocks of the ritual.

Fires of hell.

When we embrace with one hand but push away with the other, it's the push that remains in lasting memory.

Close encounters of the fourth kind.

The lack of chronological order in Bamidbar allows expressions of God's love for Israel to precede the trials and tribulations of desert wandering.

What if the central narrative of the Jewish people had been different?