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Why Isn’t Poultry and Dairy Kosher?
Contrary to popular misconception, the rabbis were not afraid that a piece of chicken has the same appearance as a piece of meat
Contrary to popular misconception, the rabbis were not afraid that a piece of chicken has the same appearance as a piece of meat
Who Was Elisheva?
Elisheba appears just once in the Torah. To learn more, we dig deep into rabbinic and kabbalistic texts…
Elisheba appears just once in the Torah. To learn more, we dig deep into rabbinic and kabbalistic texts…
Parshah
Why Did Moses Hit the Rock?
If striking the rock was so awful, why was it okay so many years earlier? Why didn't Moses follow G-d's simple instructions? Why did this seemingly minor offense have such severe consequences?
If striking the rock was so awful, why was it okay so many years earlier? Why didn't Moses follow G-d's simple instructions? Why did this seemingly minor offense have such severe consequences?
The Crouching Lion
The details differ (a tiger raised in a Brooklyn apartment, a circus lion losing it in the ring) but the basic story is the same: a large cat "suddenly" sheds its domesticated persona and... well, you don't want to be in its way when that happens
The details differ (a tiger raised in a Brooklyn apartment, a circus lion losing it in the ring) but the basic story is the same: a large cat "suddenly" sheds its domesticated persona and... well, you don't want to be in its way when that happens
Voices
Swapping the Cross of My Childhood for a Star of David
My journey to find my Jewish reality is fairly recent and in the beginning was quite tentative. When I began to seek out places to go to services, I had no idea how healing that would be.
My journey to find my Jewish reality is fairly recent and in the beginning was quite tentative. When I began to seek out places to go to services, I had no idea how healing that would be.
When My Mother Turned 94...
I had gotten the idea from a friend whose elderly mother had, like mine, never done any Torah study.
I had gotten the idea from a friend whose elderly mother had, like mine, never done any Torah study.
12 Tammuz
The Coin Toss Was Not Random
While he was talking, the future rebbe took out a coin and began to flip it up into the air
While he was talking, the future rebbe took out a coin and began to flip it up into the air
Melachah of the Week
Zoreh - Winnowing
Winnowing refers to the act of removing chaff from grain, using wind to blow the lighter chaff away from the heavier kernels.
Winnowing refers to the act of removing chaff from grain, using wind to blow the lighter chaff away from the heavier kernels.
Old age is a virtue and a blessing...It is true that a 20-year-old can dance the night away while his grandmother tires after a few minutes. But man was not created to dance for hours on end. Man was created to make life on earth purer, brighter and holier than it was before he came on the scene... In this regard, a person's value and productivity only increases with age... The institution of "retirement", which pushes millions of men and women to the sidelines of society each year, is a tragic waste of human life and resources.
— The Lubavitcher Rebbe
Print Magazine
For a mitzvah is a candle and Torah is light. (Proverbs 6:23)
Every mitzvah shines its particular light into our world. And there will come a time when you will see that light with your eyes.
Except the candles that are lit for Shabbat before sunset. They shine a light you can see right now.
It may seem an ordinary li...
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