Torah from Narnia

You Have Appealed to Tash, and in the Temple of Tash you shall be healed...   The archvillain in "The Horse and His Boy," is Princ...

I'm not quite sure what to make of this, but it dawned on me that while there are parallels between Shasta's origin story to that of...

Our sages tell us that you can learn of someone's true nature if you observe them in three contexts: their wallet (their business deali...

In out last post we started analyzing the statement of  Raish Lakish in Ecclesiastes Rabbah, "Anyone who becomes merciful in place of c...

Raish Lakish said, "Anyone who becomes merciful in place of cruel, will at the end, become cruel in the place of merciful." ( Eccl...

As those who did the homework from the last post saw, in chapter 20 of 1 Kings, King Ahab of Israel is merciful to ben-Haddad the King of Ar...

Tomorrow evening begins the holiday of Shavuot - the time the Torah was given. Hence, I thought it appropriate to suggest some Torah learnin...

King Lune is the king of Archenland during Narnia's Golden Age under the Pevensies. In our first personal encounter with him in The Hors...

There is one Talking Beast about whom we are explicitly told that he had, “gone back to Wild Bear habits.” That is the Lapsed Bear of Stormn...

In our last post we noted that there is one Talking Beast, the horse Bree from The Horse and His Boy, who is highly attentive to not acting...

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...

We have already spoken of the Chronicles’ two great ba’alei teshuva, “returnees” to the true religion, Edmund and Eustace. Edmund had rebell...

Lucy, though grownup at the end of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, remains “gay and goldenhaired,” and is thus called Queen Lucy the ...

In our quest to define valiance we have temporarily shifted our focus from Reepicheep to Lucy. The adult Lucy was called Queen Lucy the Vali...

The final Sefirah is that of Malchut or Kingship. Malchut is the ultimate synthesis of all of the Sefirot and the link which connects God to...

Thursday evening starts the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, commemorating the revelation at Sinai. That revelation is a singular moment in Jewish...

In our last post we attempted to learn the true nature of the Calormene god Tash. We saw that Tash is not simply an imaginary chieftain god...

The Calormenes worship, bless, curse, and swear in the name of the “god” Tash. The first we hear of Tash is in The Horse and His Boy when A...

Those who ask questions that do not concern them are steering the ship of folly towards the rock of indigence. In a number of previous ...

Previously, we defined two types of silence: (1) Silence as a lack of hearing, (2) Silence allowing for hearing. We have seen that ch...