I've Always Wondered
What Is This Gog and Magog? Originally published September 28-29, 2018.

On the Shabbat in the middle of Sukkot (“Shabbat hol hamo’ed Sukkot”) we read a haftarah from the book of Ezekiel (38:18-39:16) discussing Gog of the land of Magog.  Gog seems to be a model of an enemy, written to show what will happen to the enemies, but I always leave such interpretation to the […]

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