During an exploratory interview with Rabbi Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Rich and Margaret Pogin, hosts of the Reclaiming the Real Hanukkah project, were encouraged by the common ground they found with Rabbi Eliezer within the pages of the Book.
It did not take them long to decide that we needed to share the information they learned with a larger audience. Below is a sample of some of what happened at their first encounter with Rabbi Eliezer Ben-Yehuda that inspired us to bring him to our Return to the Book Conference.
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The Torah translated as “Commandments” did give those words a different feeling. Never put much thought into it in that particular context growing up. Nonetheless, I always did try my best to take it seriously. After coming to know that they’re the ten “Instructions” or “Teachings” did my perspective around it change—still taking it seriously of course. We definitely need the Hebrew language if we’re to understand the scriptures the way they’re meant to be understood.