Trying to imagine fat, fuzzy white lambs, jumping one by one over a fence, is a well-known remedy for sleeplessness. When I used to try this, I would insert a dapper black sheep with a red bow tie now ...

As far as we can tell, the idea of counting sheep to get to sleep might go back to ancient shepherds, who had to literally count their sheep every night before turning in, to make sure they were all ...

The High Holy Day liturgy offers images of God as the counter, writer and source of all inspiration. When I had trouble falling asleep as a child, my parents would tell me to count sheep. It didn’t ...

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