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Abe Mezrich

Feb 2, 2023, 10:18 AM

When everyone thinks they’re right, poetry offers something different. A lesson from the Song of the Sea. Possibly the most famous poem in the Torah – the Song of the Sea – appears after every party in the story is...

Dec 14, 2022, 10:38 AM

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Only Tamar can save Twitter (or whatever’s next)

The very technologies we use to mask our imperfections and deflect outward can also enable us to dig deeper and connect more (Vayeshev)

Oct 19, 2022, 12:34 PM

Now the fig leaves are digital

The Garden of Eden’s tech was a warning for today. Society is splitting apart, the narrative goes; and tech – especially social media – is largely to blame. This feels like the world’s newest problem. But maybe one reason we...

Aug 3, 2022, 12:55 AM

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You can’t rebuild the Temple in the Tower of Babel

Destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem by Francesco Hayez

The factionalism of zealots who are furious that we don't all want what they do gets us nowhere. We need an ethos of diversity instead

May 31, 2022, 10:12 AM

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We’re trapped in a digital Tower of Babel. Sinai shows the way out

Unprecedented technology, ready information, and mass communications are tearing our society apart. Shavuot provides an antidote to all that

Apr 29, 2022, 2:50 PM

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Elon Musk, with his technology and trolling, mirrors the biblical Nimrod

Elon Musk at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on January 19, 2020. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)

And just as the ancient world was ambivalent about the mighty hunter, we're not quite sure what to make of the business magnate

About Me

Abe Mezrich is a Jewish poet and tech marketer trying to make sense of his divided life in a more divided world. His writing has appeared in outlets including the Tanakh site 929 English, The Forward, Hevria, Tablet, The Lehrhaus, Tradition, Zeek, and elsewhere. His latest book is Words for a Dazzling Firmament, a collection of poems on the weekly Torah reading from Ben Yehuda Press.

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