Dedicated by Moris and Lillian Tabacinic · In loving memory of Menachem Mendel and Shaindel Tabacinic
Despite your best efforts, you’re carrying an item while walking on Shabbat. So what do you do?
“Why was the human being created as an individual? To teach you that one who destroys a single human life is as though he has destroyed an entire world. And one who saves a single human life is as though he has saved an entire world.”
—Mishnah, Sanhedrin 4:5.
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I don't understand why there are constant ups and downs and such hardships in the Torah.
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We may have been the first openly Torah-observant Jews to visit
from outside the USSR in 70 years!
Learn how Moses gave the land east
of the Jordan to Reuben, Gad, and half of
Manassah, on one condition.
Sigmund Freud, the “father of psychology,” was secular in his professed beliefs and practices. Here is one deeply spiritual insight he knew but did not quite understand.
Join us for a special women’s Siyum Celebration, celebrating the women who completed the study of Maimonides. An interview by Chana Weisberg with Rivka Marga Gestetner, director of the Mayanot's...
The location of the Altar [in the Holy Temple in Jerusalem] is very exactly defined, and is never to be changed... It is a tradition that the place where David and Solomon built the Altar on the threshing floor of Arona, is the very place where Abraham built an altar and bound Isaac upon it; this is where Noah built [an altar] when he came out from the ark; this is where Cain and Abel brought their offerings; this is where Adam the First Man offered a korban when he was created -- and it is from [the earth of] this place that he was created
– Maimonides (Mishneh Torah, Laws of the Holy Temple, ch. 2)
Passing of R. Moshe Cordovero
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