We’re back from Israel for a short week of comic creation. Almost over jet lag but the grand adventure of the Israeli-Palestinian Comedy Tour was more than worth it.
This week all of Israel hears G@d deliver the Ten Commandments… sort of. There are lots of midrashim about what actually happened when big momma herself delivered the world’s most famous list. We like this one because it concerns the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, the aleph.
Tradition tells that when the Torah’s first word was written, beginning with the letter bet, the letter aleph protested that as the first letter it should have the honor of starting the Torah. God replied that the aleph would start the Ten Commandments, but the Torah would begin with bet because berachah (blessing) begins with bet whereas arur (cursed) begins with aleph.
SHABBAT SHALOM! – a & s
