Torah from Narnia

What is complete repentance [teshuva]? A person who confronts the same situation in which he sinned when he has the potential to commit [the...

  Ours, my boy, is a high and lonely destiny (The Magician's Nephew) There are few characters in the Chronicles of Narnia as detestable ...

My apologies for the long break from posting. Thank God all is well, and it was simply other things that other things got in the way. Chief ...

I am preparing to write a post or two about Aslan's warning to the Talking Beasts of Narnia not to return to the ways of the Dumb Beasts...

Prince Rilian is not the only one bewitched by the Lady of the Green Kirtle. The gnomes of Bism were also under her spell. Our first encount...

It's been too long since we started talking about Rilian and his return to Narnia. See here for our previous post.  In Isaac Asimov’s F...

Moving from Voyage of the Dawn Treader to The Silver Chair we find additional ba’alei teshuva, those who have returned to the true religion ...

We’ve spent the past few posts discussing Eustace’s transformation from “an ass” to a hero of Narnia. The climax of this transformation is t...

Eustace’s transformation from a dragon back into a boy is, without question, a quintessential moment of spiritual cleansing modeled after th...

The conversion of Eustace comes on Dragon Island. It is there that Eusatce is transformed into a dragon and then de-dragonned by Aslan himse...

There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it The second great penitent of the Narnian Chronicles is Eustace Cla...

An interesting twist of teshuva or religious renewal is when the subject that instigated the renewal is itself not a believer. For some, ren...

Prince Caspian (the second book of the Chronicles of Narnia, if one is following the proper order) contains a number of stories of spiritual...

Edmund himself initiates his process of repentance. True he does so only when having found himself in a much worse scenario than he had expe...

In our last post, we listed a few questions with respect to the repentance experienced by Edmund and suggested that perhaps a Jewish perspec...

The first character in the Chronicles to experience spiritual renewal is Edmund. Having been saved from the White Witch and after a talk wit...

My apologies for not posting recently as it's been a busy summer.  Some quick topics for discussion as we approach the Days of Awe with ...