The Lawnmower

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

My heart has been struck like grass and has withered, Indeed, I forget to eat my bread.  Psalm 102:4  NASB Has been struck – We might use the idiom “Go pound sand!” but I’ve never heard anyone say, “Go beat grass!”  That makes me wonder what the psalmist had in mind when he chose this verb, nākâ.  Certainly…

I’m Tore Down

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

But the tax collector, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to lift up his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, the sinner!’ Luke 18:13 NASB Beating – In the words of Eric Clapton, [CLICK HERE]. Rabbi Hirsch gives us the Hebraic version: Hitpallel, from which ‘tefilla’…