Volume 37, No.1, Mar. 2026
The New Creature and the Flax Plant
“Who can find a virtuous woman? ... She seeketh ... flax, and worketh willingly with her hands" (Proverbs 31:11, 13). Linen is so interesting that it made us pause and ask whether the processing of flax into linen has symbolic implications for the New Creature. When considering the coverings of the tabernacle, the outer covering was of seal or dugong skin, then the ram [...]
Solomon’s True Gold, Ecclesiastes
“Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the inter pretation of a thing? a man’s wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed” (Ecclesiastes 8:1). “Have you found anything?” the bookstore owner inquired of the earnest rabbinical student with a wisp of a beard. The student was sitting cross‑legged on the floor searching through the [...]