Pray Like You Mean It, Class 5

Shabbat and the Noahide, part III: Rashi

Rashi’s rejection of a Talmudic text.

“Yearn” (“Burn” parody)

“For freedom we yearn… so the Torah we may learn…”

Yehudah Maccabee (song)

“Oh, Yehudah Maccabee, how was I to see what you would mean to me?”

Light a Menorah (song)

A new, upbeat English Chanukah song!

Elijah the Prophet according to Midrash Eleh Ezkerah

Midrash Eleh Ezkerah is a dramatized narrative describing (with poetic license) the tragic executions of ten of Israel’s greatest sages at the hands of the Romans. The story depicts these ten as having lived contemporaneously and having been executed more or less in the same time and place, though this was not actually the case. […]

Hannah’s Song, rendered into rhyming English

“The one who had no children will give birth to seven sons / While she with many children will mourn every one.”

Bible Study: Jeremiah 3

“I said, ‘Return to Me!’ but she did not return.”

Bible Study: Jeremiah Chapter 1, based on classic commentaries

Jeremiah was descended from Rahab the harlot.

“Og the Mighty Giant” (song)

“Og, the mighty giant, tall as he could be; held on tight to Noah’s Ark to survive the Floody sea.”