A Thorny Matter About Bread: NaKh & Nosh Reads Judges Chapter 8

As soon as the chapter opens, Gideon gets chastised. He along with 300 other Israelites subsequently travel from place to place in search of a little something to hold them over. Gideon also snatches away the possessions of some all-too-complicit camels. Come join Rabbi Rank’s table at Kiddush to make sense of how such a wild chapter made it into the TaNaKh (the Hebrew Bible). Together we’ll occupy ourselves with a little NaKh (the final two thirds of the TaNaKh) and a little nosh (which is Yiddish for senseless eating).