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Your Questions
Why Say Shema at Bedtime?
Shema is included in the evening service. Yet the Talmud states that before one goes to sleep to sleep, he should recite the Shema. Why?
Shema is included in the evening service. Yet the Talmud states that before one goes to sleep to sleep, he should recite the Shema. Why?
What Is Parve (Pareve)?
Jewish law does not allow one to cook or consume meat together with milk products. Parve food, however, may be eaten together with both meat and milk.
Jewish law does not allow one to cook or consume meat together with milk products. Parve food, however, may be eaten together with both meat and milk.
Essay
I Jew, You Jew, I Tefillin, You Tefillin
If any Joe right off the street can be asked to wrap those leather boxes on his arm and head just because he has a Jewish mother, then Judaism can’t be an ism and certainly can’t be defined by membership dues.
If any Joe right off the street can be asked to wrap those leather boxes on his arm and head just because he has a Jewish mother, then Judaism can’t be an ism and certainly can’t be defined by membership dues.
Video
Thoughts While Stuck in a Traffic Jam
How often do we will away time, counting down till vacation and fuming while caught in traffic? Here’s an alternate perspective.
How often do we will away time, counting down till vacation and fuming while caught in traffic? Here’s an alternate perspective.
What It Was Like to Liberate the Old City
A third generation Jerusalemite tells of life in Jerusalem and his personal experience liberating the Jewish quarter during the opening days of the war.
A third generation Jerusalemite tells of life in Jerusalem and his personal experience liberating the Jewish quarter during the opening days of the war.
Story
Why Were the Innkeeper's Blessings Fulfilled?
Rumors began to circulate that whenever the innkeeper gave a blessing, it would materialize. People began frequenting his inn just to receive a blessing for whatever they needed.
Rumors began to circulate that whenever the innkeeper gave a blessing, it would materialize. People began frequenting his inn just to receive a blessing for whatever they needed.
A Jew Named Elliot
It wasn't about until a year after meeting Elliot that I found out that he was Jewish, and that his name was Elliot Cohen. Although my Jew-radar failed me, the connection that Jews have when they find another Jew kicked in, and I tried to reach out in a more personal and meaningful way to Elliot.
It wasn't about until a year after meeting Elliot that I found out that he was Jewish, and that his name was Elliot Cohen. Although my Jew-radar failed me, the connection that Jews have when they find another Jew kicked in, and I tried to reach out in a more personal and meaningful way to Elliot.
Parshah
Rush and Return
The menorah, its lamps, and the flames they hold are the very mirror of our identity as a people, the way we interact with each other, and of the elemental strivings of the human soul
The menorah, its lamps, and the flames they hold are the very mirror of our identity as a people, the way we interact with each other, and of the elemental strivings of the human soul
Behaalotecha Haftarah Companion
In the final years before the the Babylonian Exile, there were some very difficult exchanges between true prophets and their false counterparts.
In the final years before the the Babylonian Exile, there were some very difficult exchanges between true prophets and their false counterparts.
In The News
Surprise! Rabbi’s Birthday Gift Comes With Lots of Wrapping
60 congregants put on tefillin in honor of their newly 60-year-old rabbi.
60 congregants put on tefillin in honor of their newly 60-year-old rabbi.
Memorial Service for David Chase Held at the Rabbinical College of America
Philanthropist was remembered for his unwavering support of Jewish causes worldwide.
Philanthropist was remembered for his unwavering support of Jewish causes worldwide.
Women
Why I Pray Every Day
I start my day stressed out, and it usually progresses that way until bedtime. ..
I start my day stressed out, and it usually progresses that way until bedtime. ..
Seven things are hidden from man: the day of death, the day of the Redemption, the absolute truth in a judgment; also, no man knows how he will earn a livelihood, what is in his neighbor's heart, what a woman is bearing, and when the wicked will fall.
— Midrash Rabbah
Print Magazine
The Talmud (Ta'anit 23b) mentions that a woman's charity is greater than a man's. She gives the starving beggar a loaf of bread, while he only provides the means to attain it.
Read that in its inner sense and you will see that it is forever:
A man’s way is to serve your impoverished soul ideas—perhaps you will be wise e...
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