Tag: water

Joshua Friedlander ponders the nature of the mikvah in this poem.

In this second-place prize-winning essay for Hadar’s annual Ateret Zvi contest, Nehemia Polen approaches a vexing episode in the Torah through new lens: what if Moses and Aaron were denied entry to the Land of Israel not because of what they did when obtaining water from the rock but because of where they escaped to right before?

As we approach Pesach, Bruce Black's latest poem vividly retells the splitting of the sea.