The Stumbling Block

A man does not fully understand the words of the Torah until he has come to grief over them. Babylonian Talmud, Gitten 43a Come to grief – Rabbi Huna commented with these words when he acknowledged his own error in interpretation concerning a debate over the conditions of betrothal. Rabbi Huna called for a public…

Fall Over or Fall Under?

“Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, each according to his conduct,” declares the Lord GOD.  “Repent and turn away from all your transgressions, so that iniquity may not become a stumbling block to you.”  Ezekiel 18:30  (T. Hegg translation) Stumbling Block – We might think we know this word since the same…

The Stumbling Block

A man does not fully understand the words of the Torah until he has come to grief over them.  Babylonian Talmud, Gitten 43a Come to grief – Rabbi Huna commented with these words when he acknowledged his own error in interpretation concerning a debate over the conditions of betrothal.  Rabbi Huna called for a public…