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Your Questions
Why Lift the Bride and Groom on Chairs at Jewish Weddings?
Many of the great sages in the Talmud would dance and do all sorts of tricks to entertain the couple.
Many of the great sages in the Talmud would dance and do all sorts of tricks to entertain the couple.
Why Aren’t the Matriarchs Mentioned in Our Prayers?
Do women not count? Are they supposed to just be quietly left in the background?
Do women not count? Are they supposed to just be quietly left in the background?
Battling Debt for Decades
I have done everything in my power to pay back my debts, but every time I make a little headway, something happens to plunge me into debt again.
I have done everything in my power to pay back my debts, but every time I make a little headway, something happens to plunge me into debt again.
Parshah
Who Was Amram?
Amram, son of Kehot, led the Jewish people in Egypt and fathered three of the greatest leaders in Jewish history.
Amram, son of Kehot, led the Jewish people in Egypt and fathered three of the greatest leaders in Jewish history.
Dear Fellow Survivor, You Are Holy
His flames fully engulfed you. He consumed you. Yet here you are. Still around. Still alive. You’re functioning.
His flames fully engulfed you. He consumed you. Yet here you are. Still around. Still alive. You’re functioning.
Moses or Pharaoh: Which Mindset Are You?
While we’re usually in touch with our suffering, seeing it in others is not so common.
While we’re usually in touch with our suffering, seeing it in others is not so common.
In the Face of Suffering
G‑d is with us in our suffering. That He has not abandoned us. That He is present even when His presence is hidden.
G‑d is with us in our suffering. That He has not abandoned us. That He is present even when His presence is hidden.
Coming of Age
A Bar Mitzvah at Any Age
My thoughts kept pulling me back to the Kotel, the Western Wall. It had been too long since I had been there.
My thoughts kept pulling me back to the Kotel, the Western Wall. It had been too long since I had been there.
Cambodian Royal Family Celebrates Its First Bat Mitzvah
The daughter of a princess who converted to Judaism comes of age.
The daughter of a princess who converted to Judaism comes of age.
Story
Envoy From Safed
If successful, he would save his brothers and sisters from certain ruin. If unsuccessful, they shuddered to imagine…
If successful, he would save his brothers and sisters from certain ruin. If unsuccessful, they shuddered to imagine…
As long as Sarah lived, there was a blessing on her dough, and the lamp used to burn from the eve of the Sabbath until the eve of the following Sabbath; when she died, these ceased; but when Rebecca came, they returned
— Midrash Rabbah, Bereishit 60
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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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