Job’s friends piously justify God’s actions and challenge Job to accept that he has done wrong. Yet God sides with Job and rebukes the friends for not “speaking about me in honesty as did my servant Job.”
Prof.
Edward L. Greenstein
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The inscrutable story of the Akedah, can be better understood in light of its subversive sequel, the equally morally complex book of Job.
Judy Klitsner
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A look at Naomi’s theology, as expressed in her poem, and how it carries her through her grief and back into productive engagement.
Prof. Rabbi
Jonathan Magonet
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Unlike the other four chapters where the author speaks for the community, the third chapter of Lamentations is written as an individual lament. The chapter begins with “I am the man who has known affliction,” but who is he?
Prof.
Jacob Klein
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“Great as the sea is your breaking,” Lamentations 2:13. Before we try to understand pain or tragedy, we must first perceive its magnitude.
Dr.
Tzvi Novick
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Is infertility a divine punishment?
Prof.
Joel Baden
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