Day: December 3, 2021
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Shabbat shalom
The lover in the Vita Nuova rightly and properly says for the most part Ella and only at times Voi. The spectator of the Paradiso, when he says Colui, speaks from poetic necessity, and knows it. If God is addressed as He or It, it is always allegorically. But if we say Thou to Him, […]
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Studying Deuteronomy 5 1-3, 10 12-13, and 27 1-10
We’re studying three short, related texts in Deuteronomy for Sunday, December 5. Deuteronomy 5:1-3 is the preamble to Moses’s reprise of the 10 Commandments. Deuteronomy 10:12-13 is Moses’s wrap-up of the meaning of the covenant at the Mountain of God for the Israelites. Deuteronomy 27:1-10 sets out a ceremony designed to enshrine the instructions associated […]
Matters of Interpretation 