“What would we gain from the Bible by having yet another story of humiliation and pain?” asks Rabbi Lia Bass. We are not yet done with the book of Genesis, the first book of the Bible, and how many stories of humiliation and pain have we found? What would we gain by having yet another? [...]
Posts Tagged ‘division’
What would we gain? – ORANGE
Posted: January 27, 2012 in OrangeTags: Dinah, division, feelings, Jacob, power, responsibility, Shechem
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Can’t buy me love
Posted: January 24, 2012 in Orange, YellowTags: bachelor, competition, division, Jacob, Leah, love, Rachel
Every so often, as I flip through channels, I stop and watch a few minutes of The Bachelor. I do not recommend it. The show brings in a dozen or so women who are all trying to do whatever they can to earn the bachelor’s love, so that at the end he will marry them. [...]
Be careful what you wish
Posted: January 21, 2012 in Orange, YellowTags: blessing, competition, division, equality, Esau, Isaac, Jacob
Yesterday Isaac blessed Jacob, thinking he was blessing Esau. He wished for his son not just good things that Jacob could enjoy himself or with his family – he wished that this son would be master to his brothers, that he would have and be better than anyone else. Today, Isaac learns that his blessing [...]
Un-united
Posted: January 9, 2012 in Orange, YellowTags: call, community, division, responsibility, unity
Ok, God, which is it? Do you want us together, one body, one church, unified? Or do you want us apart, scattered, separated? Looking back from our perspective as 21st century Christians, with multitudes of denominations and civil wars splitting countries apart and all kinds of divisions, trying to hold together as one group, one [...]
