We had a scholar-in-residence at the synagogue this weekend. Rabbi Norman Cohen, the S-I-R, is a student of midrash. He gave four incredible lectures dealing mostly with our dysfunctional first family, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Some marvelous new ways to refract the biblical characters. Too much to describe in a letter. … I am never-endingly amazed that each swing through the Bible yields something new to contemplate and learn.