Once, fed up with a certain passage when he believed God was being harsh, he slammed the book shut and said Ach, get me a better story. Yet he would also say over and over that the stories in the Bible were the wisest in the world, and if he were young, he would start making movies of them, beginning with King David. He knew his life was possible only in America.
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I’ve been reading Dennis Prager’s Rational Bible series. I never knew that Israel means ‘to struggle with God.’