Wow! I will have to read that later. What can you tell me about thetorah.com? What is its editorial slant, usually? #ParshaChat

"Cursed be their anger so fierce, And their wrath so relentless. I will divide them in Jacob, Scatter them in Israel." (Etz Hayim translation) 2/2 #ParshaChat

"She is more righteous than I," he realizes. But the assumption stands: if a woman has sex with a man she isn't married to, she's a whore. Unless, it seems, her brothers prove her purity by killing the man and all his clan, as in the Dina story! 3/3 #ParshaChat

In the Judah story, the daughter-in-law, Tamar, proves that HE was the "customer" who bought her, and this is all in the context where he wouldn't let her marry one of his sons to carry on another son's name, as he was obligated to do. 2/3 #ParshaChat

Reminds me of a story about another of her brothers, Judah, who thinks his daughter-in-law has "played the harlot." He tersely says she has to be killed. in this week's parsha, Shimon and Levi assume that Shechem has shamed Dinah in a way that's just as bad. They have to be killed. 1/3 #ParshaChat

Ouch! #ParshaChat

I hope you are right. I will suspend disbelief and try to find something worthwhile to say. #ParshaChat