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Recap: Yehudis just read in the journal that Yishai was playing catch with Dovid, and Dovid noticed a stick and picked it up. Only it wasn’t a stick, it was a poisonous snake that reared its head towards Dovid.

I am a respected archaeologist who discovered an ancient scroll from around the period the Jews have dubbed “The Shoftim.” It was discovered on the road from an ancient country known as Moav, to a town, now in modern day Israel, called Beis Lechem.

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Recap: Ezra takes Yishai to the Blennerhassett mansion and introduces him to Harman Blennerhassett. Yishai sees that the values of their host are not the right ones for his brother, but he doesn’t know how to guide his big brother away from a dangerous mistake.

It takes a lot of courage to move on. We don’t want to. We are not interested in cutting slack to those who have hurt us - and they have hurt us. Maybe unintentionally, but they should have known better, we think.

When my father had back surgery, he shopped around to nearly every top orthopedic surgeon in L.A. until he found one willing to cut into his ailing eighty-five-year-old frame and repair three levels of his lumbar vertebrae. We were overjoyed to see him recover from the spine operation, but soon thereafter he needed a knee replacement. Oy vey! For all his health issues, he still maintains his Dodgers and Lakers season tickets, trades on the stock market, and teaches a monthly Jewish history class. But his pleasure in life is sharply curtailed in what seems to be a cruel downward spiral of Job-like proportions.