HOUSE HAUNTED? WHAT TO DO?

An Animated Guide to the Haunted House Since Leviticus By Sam Holleran                 They’re usually the site of a bad event:         or they’re home to a bad person:         In Gothic literature, old memories can’t be sealed off. Locked rooms have

BRUCE, LEVITICUS, AND BROKEN HOMES

What the Bible has on Springsteen when it comes to toxic domestic spaces by Stephen Hazan Arnoff   What’s missing from much of Bruce Springsteen’s recorded work today, and what makes his older work so compelling, can be found in spades in Leviticus 14. Both the Bible and the Boss take on an impossibly big

PURIFICATION RITES

What cleaning our homes is really all about By Elissa Strauss         I like housework and I find it satisfying. I get a frisson of joy from fluffing my pillows, or watching the bottom of the bathtub gleam like a pearl. Making the bed is a more powerful stimulant than my morning

PRIESTLY SUBTEXTS

An actor explores how to announce a plague, or its purge By Zvi Sahar And he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, It seemeth to me there is as it were a plague in the house. Leviticus 14:35   Our most secure and safe place is our home. Between its four

THE HEALING OF THE HOUSE

A dialogue with Leviticus 14, Verses 33 to 53 By Ruby Namdar               Leviticus: And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a