Weekly Unscrolled Torah Portion: Vezot Haberakhah

In my limited imagination, few things could, quite literally, feel more like the Hebrew School I had been expelled from than plowing through pages stuffed with cloying characters acting out black-and-white depictions of saints and sinners, in comforting tales that shut out the real world and reduce life to a trite message of reward and punishment, good and evil.
Roger Bennett is a writer, broadcaster and co-founder of Reboot.