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Episode 63 Herman Wouk, Jericho, and the Jewish Miracle

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A book about Judaism by a famous American author—and another decades later by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks—were both inspired by a phenomenon found in contemporary times, and millennia ago.

Text: Joshua 2

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