Like many of you, I grew up in an age of black and white monster films, like “Frankenstein” and “Dracula,” which were played endlessly on late night TV. In the Bible there are also a number of ...

What do scriptural accounts of monstrous beings like Leviathan and Behemoth tell us about our experience of the sacred? When I started reading the Bible as a teenager, I was shocked to read the ...

Did you know frogs are scholars of Torah, the Leviathan was God’s favorite pet and gazelles were the carrier pigeons of ancient Judea? From the time Adam named the animals, the Jewish imagination has ...