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Rabbi Francis Nataf (www.francisnataf.com) is a Jerusalem-based educator and thinker and the author of four books of contemporary Torah commentary. His parshah column appears weekly in The Jewish Press. Rabbi Nataf is also the author of, "Redeeming Relevance in the Book of Leviticus"

Redeeming Relevance / Rabbi Francis Nataf

God’s Idolatrous Gentile Priests

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Redeeming Relevance: How Could He Possibly Think That Way?

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Word Prompt – SHOTRIM – Francis Nataf

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Redeeming Relevance / Rabbi Francis Nataf

Was Moshe a Success or a Failure?

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I am More than Me, Myself, and I

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Redeeming Relevance / Rabbi Francis Nataf

Wisdom of the Longer Path

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Word Prompt – BONFIRE – Francis Nataf

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When Questions Did Kill

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Is There Anything Wrong with Chametz the Rest of the Year?

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Are You Sure You Wouldn’t Have Worshiped the Golden Calf?

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Word Prompt – PURIM – Francis Nataf

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Bar Kappara’s ‘Off-Color’ Jokes

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Redeeming Relevance / Rabbi Francis Nataf

What Happens When We Forget About God?

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Chanukah as the Rabbinic Zman Simchatenu

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Word Prompt – LADDERS – Francis Nataf

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Avraham’s Admirable Failures

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The Problem with Perfection

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How to Make the New Year a NEW Year

Rabbi Francis Nataf

Redeeming Relevance / Rabbi Francis Nataf

Anger, Procrastination, and Elul

Rabbi Francis Nataf

Redeeming Relevance / Rabbi Francis Nataf

When a Student must Teach the Teacher

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Redeeming Relevance / Rabbi Francis Nataf

When Torah Knowledge and Wisdom are Separated

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Redeeming Relevance / Rabbi Francis Nataf

They Called Him, Rebbe

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Redeeming Relevance / Rabbi Francis Nataf

The Lethal Challenge of Learning Torah from Others

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Redeeming Relevance / Rabbi Francis Nataf

Does the Year Begin in Nissan or Tishrei?

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Redeeming Relevance / Rabbi Francis Nataf

Redeeming Relevance: Achashverosh and the Evil of Neutrality

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Redeeming Relevance / Rabbi Francis Nataf

Redeeming Relevance: Praying Responsibly

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Judaism

A Talmudic Tragedy in Two Acts

Rabbi Francis Nataf

Redeeming Relevance / Rabbi Francis Nataf

The Holy Brigand and Rabbi Yochanan’s New Beit Midrash

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Limits to ‘Chochmah beGoyim?’

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Redeeming Relevance: A People Chosen for Opposition

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