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Bamidbar
By the Numbers
10 Sivan Facts Every Jew Should Know
Counting from the springtime month of Nisan, Sivan is the third month on the calendar.
Counting from the springtime month of Nisan, Sivan is the third month on the calendar.
Eleven Shavuot Facts Every Jew Should Know
Every year on Shavuot we renew our acceptance of the Torah, and G‑d “re-gives” it to us anew.
Every year on Shavuot we renew our acceptance of the Torah, and G‑d “re-gives” it to us anew.
Essay
What It’s Like to Be the Only Rabbi on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast
Young rabbi returned to build Jewish community in area where he was raised
Young rabbi returned to build Jewish community in area where he was raised
Shavuot Readings
How to Tap Into the Sounds of Silence
Too much of our world seems dense and impervious to any glimmer or shard of light. But that nucleus remains. In each of our souls. In each kernel of creation.
Too much of our world seems dense and impervious to any glimmer or shard of light. But that nucleus remains. In each of our souls. In each kernel of creation.
Lifestyle
"All her pursuers overtook her between the straits" (Lamentations 1:3)--this refers to the days of trouble and stricture, from the 17th of Tammuz to 9th of Av
— Midrash Rabbah, Eicha 1:29
Print Magazine
Afterlife is a very rational, natural consequence of the order of things.
After all, nothing is ever lost—even the body only transforms into earth. But nothing is lost.
So too, the person you are is never lost. That person—that soul—only returns to its origin.
If your soul became acutely attached to the material worl...
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