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September 13, 2024

Our Mother in Heaven

When the Bible uses maternal imagery for God.

In his September essay for Mosaic, Meir Soloveichik provides a moving analysis of how the Sephardi High Holy Day liturgy makes use of the metaphor of God as loving father. Moshe Taragin here takes a closer look at a less common set of images:

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