Torah from Narnia

Today, my wife and some kids went to a used bookstore and found "The Last Battle" (and some of the other Chronicles) with the cove...

In the previous post, I asked why the White Witch thought she could kill Aslan. She knew that he created Narnia (and presumably the universe...

In our last posts we've been discussing different types of disguises: those that attempt to hide one's true self and those that reve...

  "My sister Susan," answered Peter shortly and gravely, "is no longer a friend of Narnia." Perhaps one of the saddest p...

In our last post we quoted the  mishna  in Rosh HaShana as a parallel to Aslan's judgment of the creatures of the Narnian world by the s...

They all looked straight in his face, I don't think they had any choice about that.  We've spent a lot of time recently talking abou...

In our last post we contrasted two Talking Beasts: the Lapsed Bear of Stormness and Ginger the Cat. The Lapsed Bear is specifically called o...

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...

I do not know that there need be any war between you and us. To understand Peter’s above reply to Emeth let us examine Peter’s context and p...

Has not one of the poets said that a noble friend is the best gift and a noble enemy the next best? We have spent quite some time analyzing...

“More like the real thing.”     (Lord Digory, The Last Battle) Almost two years ago the world shut down, a week before my younger son’s bar-...

We’ve been discussing how to read the verse in Micah ( 4:5 ) which foretells that the nations will walk in the name of their gods, while the...

In my annual Thanksgiving class this past Thursday, we studied the first section of a Thanksgiving sermon given by Rabbi Morris J. Raphall o...

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...

After many posts, we have finally identified the true enemy of Narnia, as seen in the Last Battle, and discerned how he operates. The true e...

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...

In our series of posts on The Last Battle we have been trying to identify the true enemy to which Narnia eventually falls. The superficial ...

In the previous post we saw that the northern part of Narnia at the beginning of The Last Battle is not a land of peace and prosperity, far...

At this point in our discussion some may be wondering what this all has to do with Torah or Judaism. We’ll get there (maybe), but for the m...