(Why do people make declarations over wine? February 2021)
Why does it matter that Rachav hid Joshua’s spies under piles of flax? August 2020
Self justification can lead us down the road from chet to zadon, from carelessness to willful defiance, from rosh to la’anah.
Jonah’s shade plant provides a graphic metaphor for the message of this Biblical book.
(The king of Persia in the book of Esther, the legend of The Wandering Jew, and entomology; February 2010)
(Botany determines Jeremiah’s theology; August 2009)
(Possible health benefits of cinnamon; August 2007)
(The sunflower and the Jerusalem artichoke; August 2007)
(Identity and symbolism of ‘chatzav’; August 2007)
(On the religious significance of planting trees in Israel; March 2007)