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Terumah

By the Numbers
13 Facts About Jewish Leap Years

The Hebrew leap year ensures that the Jewish calendar remains true to the solar cycle
Take the Mishkan Quiz
How much do you know about this fundamental element of our nation’s spiritual life?
Essay
Why Do Some Point at the Uplifted Torah?

What are the origins and reasons behind this custom?
Be Like a Fish: A Meditation for the Month of Adar

There is nothing that can hurt us, break us or be taken from us because when we are connected to our Creator, we are joined with the Source of all.
She Committed Crimes. Does She Belong in Prison?

A look at Aleph Institute's Alternative Sentencing Program.
Parshah
Why Read the Ketubah at the Wedding?

A ketubah is far from (just) a contract of love. In fact, it’s pretty much the exact opposite.
Stop and Notice the Red Camellia

Shabbat is so effective for me that my undistracted brain begins to coalesce in imaginative ideas and beautiful prose.
Story
The Pit and the Prince

The pit is dark and deep, and the chances of the prince ever climbing out are slim-to-none.
Rebbe Pinchas Koritzer (1725-1791)

Rebbe Pinchas Schapiro of Koritz was an early Chassidic master and a direct descendant of Rabbi Natan Schapio, author of the Megaleh Amukot.
Lifestyle
Just as the olive yields oil for light only when it is pounded, so are man's greatest potentials realized only under the pressure of adversity
— The Talmud
Print Magazine

We don’t learn Torah to gain knowledge—not even divine knowledge. At the time you are learning Torah, your mind itself is divine.

Your mind wraps itself in divine modalities. Your soul twirls and rises in a divine dance. As you wrestle with divine words, pathways and wisdom, you merge with them, so that your entire being...