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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.
Video
The Torah – G-d’s Wisdom, for Every Jew
In ancient Egypt, the study of wisdom was limited to an intellectual elite – the sorcerers and astrologers. Ordinary people had no independent access to wisdom. When the Jews left Egypt, however, G-d commanded them to journey to Sinai and receive the Torah. G-d revealed the Ten Commandments, which included the entire Torah, directly to three million Jewish men, women and children together.
In ancient Egypt, the study of wisdom was limited to an intellectual elite – the sorcerers and astrologers. Ordinary people had no independent access to wisdom. When the Jews left Egypt, however, G-d commanded them to journey to Sinai and receive the Torah. G-d revealed the Ten Commandments, which included the entire Torah, directly to three million Jewish men, women and children together.
Lifestyle
[A very high] level of charity is to give to the poor without knowing to whom one gives, and without the recipient knowing from whom he received. For this is performing a mitzvah solely for the sake of Heaven.
— Mishneh Torah, Laws of Charity, 10:8
Print Magazine
Our world is a world where a rainbow could be.
At first, there was a world that only received and returned no dividends. Its inhabitants took no ownership. They lived with their Creator’s benevolence, they did what they did with no need for excuses, and eventually died as they died. And that was it.
With the Flood, this...
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