Tag: Pentateuch

After Adam: The Books of Moses by Laurance Wieder is a genre-bending biblical saga that re-centers the personal bond between the Jewish people and their intimacy-seeking God.
Leonard Cohen's Jewish identity and spirituality are explored in this text, highlighting his farewell song "You Want It Darker" as his most Jewish composition.
The text discusses a tradition where pregnant women would bite off the tip of the etrog after Sukkot in a symbolic act tied to childbirth pains, stemming from the Tsena-Urena, a Yiddish biblical commentary popular among women in early modern Ashkenazic communities.