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Yitro
By the Numbers
10 Facts About 15 Shevat, the New Year for Trees
Learn about the 15th of Shevat, the "new year" for trees, with these ten fascinating facts.
Learn about the 15th of Shevat, the "new year" for trees, with these ten fascinating facts.
10 Questions: Take the South Africa Jewry Quiz
How much do you know about South African Jewry? Take this quiz to find out!
How much do you know about South African Jewry? Take this quiz to find out!
Essay
The Existential Exodus
You can hide it enough so it doesn't embarrass you in public. You can pretty it up so that others are not as annoyed with it. You can try to ignore its whelps and howls when it gets out of hand. But can you free yourself of your ego?
You can hide it enough so it doesn't embarrass you in public. You can pretty it up so that others are not as annoyed with it. You can try to ignore its whelps and howls when it gets out of hand. But can you free yourself of your ego?
Your Questions
Halachic Guidance for Gardening (in the Diaspora)
Through following these halachic guidelines, we make our gardens not only physically beautiful but spiritually delightful as well.
Through following these halachic guidelines, we make our gardens not only physically beautiful but spiritually delightful as well.
Biography
Rebbe Shmuel Shmelke of Nikolsburg (1726-1778)
Rebbe Shmuel Shmelke Horowitz was a renowned scholar and leader of the second generation of the Chassidic movement.
Rebbe Shmuel Shmelke Horowitz was a renowned scholar and leader of the second generation of the Chassidic movement.
Parshah
Don't Be a Building in the Desert
Moses wasn’t telling Yitro anything he didn’t know. Rather, he was trying to see if his father-in-law really possessed the mettle to join G‑d’s people.
Moses wasn’t telling Yitro anything he didn’t know. Rather, he was trying to see if his father-in-law really possessed the mettle to join G‑d’s people.
From Generation to Generation
What You Can Do for Your Elderly Parents
By including the nursing assistants in the culture of the residents, I showed that their work was important, appreciated and valued.
By including the nursing assistants in the culture of the residents, I showed that their work was important, appreciated and valued.
The Inheritance That Broke Up a Family
There had never been a particularly warm relationship between the siblings, and in the years that followed, their connections became weaker.
There had never been a particularly warm relationship between the siblings, and in the years that followed, their connections became weaker.
Video
Seeing the Potential
15 Shevat, the New Year for Trees, is when the sap is just beginning to flow, and the trees awaken from their winter sleep. But if the fruit is not yet growing, why do we celebrate the occasion by eating fruit?
15 Shevat, the New Year for Trees, is when the sap is just beginning to flow, and the trees awaken from their winter sleep. But if the fruit is not yet growing, why do we celebrate the occasion by eating fruit?
Mount Sinai Cupcakes for Parshat Yitro
Enjoy creating and serving these delicious cupcakes for this week's Torah portion.
Enjoy creating and serving these delicious cupcakes for this week's Torah portion.
As soon as the earth heard G-d say, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helpmeet opposite him" (Genesis 2:18), she began to tremble and clamored. She said before her creator: 'Master of all the worlds, I haven't the power to feed all the kids of man!" Said G-d to her, "You and I shall feed them" and they split it between them.
— Midrash Pirkei d'Rabbi Eliezer, ch. 12
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Blind faith believes that which it is told, because it wants to believe.
Intellect believes that which it understands, because it wants to attain understanding.
Wisdom believes that which is true, because it is true.
Wisdom doesn’t have to fit that which some self-serving faith wishes to believe. Neither does it await...
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