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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

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

Rabbi Francis Nataf

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Word Prompt – PURIM – Francis Nataf

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Redeeming Relevance / Rabbi Francis Nataf

Bar Kappara’s ‘Off-Color’ Jokes

Rabbi Francis Nataf

Redeeming Relevance / Rabbi Francis Nataf

What Happens When We Forget About God?

Rabbi Francis Nataf

Holidays

Chanukah as the Rabbinic Zman Simchatenu

Rabbi Francis Nataf

In Print

Word Prompt – LADDERS – Francis Nataf

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Redeeming Relevance / Rabbi Francis Nataf

Avraham’s Admirable Failures

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Judaism

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

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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

Rabbi Francis Nataf

Redeeming Relevance / Rabbi Francis Nataf

They Called Him, Rebbe

Rabbi Francis Nataf

Redeeming Relevance / Rabbi Francis Nataf

The Lethal Challenge of Learning Torah from Others

Rabbi Francis Nataf

Redeeming Relevance / Rabbi Francis Nataf

Does the Year Begin in Nissan or Tishrei?

Rabbi Francis Nataf

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

Rabbi Francis Nataf

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

Rabbi Francis Nataf

Judaism

Limits to ‘Chochmah beGoyim?’

Rabbi Francis Nataf

Redeeming Relevance / Rabbi Francis Nataf

Redeeming Relevance: A People Chosen for Opposition

Rabbi Francis Nataf

Holidays

Redeeming Relevance: Forgiving Made Easy

Rabbi Francis Nataf

Redeeming Relevance / Rabbi Francis Nataf

Redeeming Relevance: Moshe’s Sober Consolation

Rabbi Francis Nataf

Redeeming Relevance / Rabbi Francis Nataf

Redeeming Relevance: Parshat Shoftim: Self-Knowledge is not Self-Understanding

Rabbi Francis Nataf

Redeeming Relevance / Rabbi Francis Nataf

Redeeming Relevance: When the Torah’s Answer to Good, Bad or Indifferent is Yes, Yes...

Rabbi Francis Nataf

Redeeming Relevance / Rabbi Francis Nataf

How Should We Listen?…

Rabbi Francis Nataf

Redeeming Relevance / Rabbi Francis Nataf

Redeeming Relevance: How to – and how not to – Challenge the Status Quo

Rabbi Francis Nataf

Redeeming Relevance / Rabbi Francis Nataf

Redeeming Relevance: Chukat: The 38 Year Black Hole

Rabbi Francis Nataf

Redeeming Relevance / Rabbi Francis Nataf

Redeeming Relevance: Shelach: 10+2 Tribes

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Redeeming Relevance / Rabbi Francis Nataf

Redeeming Relevance: Parshat Nasso: Sotah and the Metaphor of Monogamy

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