This past Shabbat we read Parashat Noah, and the eleventh verse stopped me cold. Va-tishachet ha-aretz lifnei ha-Elohim, va-timalei ha-aretz chamas. “The earth became corrupt before God; the earth was filled with lawlessness.” (Genesis 6:11) The Hebrew word for lawlessness is hamas. Since October 2023,… | Read More in The Blogs