Torah: The Oldest Running Book Club

Steve Malen
3 min readDec 19, 2022

Today is the first night of Chanukah so I feel like I should knock out one of the blogs I have been meaning to write.

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Jews love arguing and a few weeks ago I was doing just that with one of my friends who wouldn’t label himself a jew but based on his personality he is most definitely a jew. Let’s just say Larry David and this guy share some funny quirks. Anyway, we were talking about the next book we will be reading for our book club and judaism of course came up because it is such a fun topic. Oh god… Anyway, he used an interesting analogy to reading the torah these thousands of years which was Harry Potter. Yeah, the book with the wizards and shit. He referenced Harry Potter saying reading and analyzing the torah isn’t that different from what jews have been doing for thousands of years. That is where I was like “you are absolutely right! Judaism is like a book club.” In fact, every religion is really a book club if you think about it.

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Look at these ladies and I believe gentleman on the bottom based on the hairy arm. They are sitting at a park table bench thing reading a book and taking notes. They are probably conversing about the book in regards to why the character did this and why did…

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Steve Malen
Steve Malen

Written by Steve Malen

They say in every joke there is some truth. I will reveal the deepest and darkest truths VIA sarcasm, or not.

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