Miriam carried the well for forty years and nobody noticed until she was gone. The Song of the Well is what happens when you dig with your own hands.

The oldest biblical text ever found — fifteen Hebrew words of blessing, given in the wilderness. Friday night they'll be spoken at a Chabad house in Krakow.

Se'u et rosh — "lift up the head." The Torah doesn't tally the Israelites. It elevates them, one by one, by name. A new convert in Tel Aviv is still learning what that means.