Author: Sandy Potashnick

Midnight holds a special place in our imaginations: deep in the night, when our eyesight is diminished and our imagination enhanced, it’s a time that can seem far away from our daytime lives and all the rules that apply within them

The morality machine.

Once, in a plausible past, a scientist built a machine. It was so powerful it could handle complex reasoning. It could calculate absolutely anything.

The story of Joseph, the main protagonist of this week’s Torah portion, Vayeshev, is a good exemplar of the impact of this self-righteous streak of human nature on our lives.