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Your Questions
Who Was Apostomus, Who Burned a Torah Scroll?
The Mishnah tells us that he burned a Torah scroll on 17 Tammuz. Who was he, and why was this so significant?
The Mishnah tells us that he burned a Torah scroll on 17 Tammuz. Who was he, and why was this so significant?
By the Numbers
10 Questions: Take the Books of the Bible Quiz
Do you know Genesis from Jeremiah, and Leviticus from Lamentations? Here’s your chance to test your smarts.
Do you know Genesis from Jeremiah, and Leviticus from Lamentations? Here’s your chance to test your smarts.
Women
Abigail, King David and the Secret of the Black Halo
The black holes that G‑d sends our way are not always easy to avoid.
The black holes that G‑d sends our way are not always easy to avoid.
Why the Jewish People Await Moshiach
There’s a secret reason the Jewish people have always wanted Moshiach, and that reason is very relevant to your life, right here, and right now.
There’s a secret reason the Jewish people have always wanted Moshiach, and that reason is very relevant to your life, right here, and right now.
Story
The Man Who Sold His Place In Heaven
“My pockets are practically empty,” the man said. “I only have one coin left.”
“My pockets are practically empty,” the man said. “I only have one coin left.”
Essay
Nothing More Upright Than a Crooked Ladder
The goal is a month or so at this center, then sober living, and then home.
The goal is a month or so at this center, then sober living, and then home.
Melachah of the Week
Boneh - Building
Assembling and building a permanent structure is forbidden on Shabbat, and is the av melachah of Boneh.
Assembling and building a permanent structure is forbidden on Shabbat, and is the av melachah of Boneh.
Lifestyle
Just as a bride comes to her groom beautiful, bejeweled and perfumed, so does the Shabbat come to the people of Israel. Just as the groom dresses in his finest raiment to receive his bride, so does the Jew receive the Shabbat. Just as a groom is pampered and absolved from working all his nuptial days, so is the Jew on Shabbat
— Midrash
Print Magazine
We don’t say a person “will be going to heaven.”
We say this person is “a child of the world to come.”
Heaven is not just somewhere you go.
It is something you carry with you.
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