ב"ה
Ki Tavo
By the Numbers
14 Rashi Facts You Should Know
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki was the most important commentator on Talmud and Torah of all times. Living in France and Germany, he left an indelible mark on Ashkenazi scholarship and culture.
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki was the most important commentator on Talmud and Torah of all times. Living in France and Germany, he left an indelible mark on Ashkenazi scholarship and culture.
10 Questions: Take the Jewish Timeline Quiz
Did David come before Deborah? Did the Tabernacle come after the Temple? Do you know the Chachamim from the Chassidim? This is your chance to test your Jewish timeline mettle.
Did David come before Deborah? Did the Tabernacle come after the Temple? Do you know the Chachamim from the Chassidim? This is your chance to test your Jewish timeline mettle.
17 Rosh Hashanah Facts Every Jew Should Know
Brush up on basic facts, traditions, and more associated with the Jewish New Year.
Brush up on basic facts, traditions, and more associated with the Jewish New Year.
Issues
Understanding Domestic Abuse
Abuse can exist anywhere. There’s no community, ethnicity or background that’s free of it.
Abuse can exist anywhere. There’s no community, ethnicity or background that’s free of it.
Upping the Spiritual Dose
We pray to G‑d to help us experience Him and feel Him in a way that relates to our experience.
We pray to G‑d to help us experience Him and feel Him in a way that relates to our experience.
How to Take Teruma and Maaser
Before partaking in produce grown in the Holy Land, one must separate tithes. Here is how it is done nowadays.
Before partaking in produce grown in the Holy Land, one must separate tithes. Here is how it is done nowadays.
Focus on Teshuva
Returning to G-d, Each Year and Every Day
Teshuvah gives us a new understanding of the essential depth of a mitzvah, of how deeply they are bound up in our own souls, and how deeply they connect us with G‑d.
Teshuvah gives us a new understanding of the essential depth of a mitzvah, of how deeply they are bound up in our own souls, and how deeply they connect us with G‑d.
Parshah
Get Anxious
On the final day of his life, Moses rejoiced when the people worried that the Levites would keep the Torah to themselves. This provides us with a lesson on how to approach our own Judaism.
On the final day of his life, Moses rejoiced when the people worried that the Levites would keep the Torah to themselves. This provides us with a lesson on how to approach our own Judaism.
The Wonder Doctor
Both men were so upset by their new circumstances that they refused to pay the doctor for his services. They argued that all he brought them was grief.
Both men were so upset by their new circumstances that they refused to pay the doctor for his services. They argued that all he brought them was grief.
On the Passing of Queen Elizabeth II
Farewell, Queen Elizabeth
She was the closest we could get to the paradigm of royalty, the closest we could point to as a textbook case of the “king” we read about in Jewish literature.
She was the closest we could get to the paradigm of royalty, the closest we could point to as a textbook case of the “king” we read about in Jewish literature.
Voices
The Rebbe and the Little Girl With a Cast
What mattered to me was my broken arm. And at that moment, that was all that mattered to the Rebbe as well.
What mattered to me was my broken arm. And at that moment, that was all that mattered to the Rebbe as well.
Lifestyle
I learned seven things from the thief: 1) What he does, he keeps to himself. 2) He is willing to take risks to attain his goal. 3) He does not distinguish between 'major' and 'minor' things, but takes equally exacting care of each and every detail. 4) He invests great effort in what he does. 5) He is swift. 6) He is always optimistic. 7) If at first he fails, he is back time and again for another try.
— Chassidic master Rabbi Zusha of Anipoli
Print Magazine
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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