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Bereishit

Your Questions
Why Did Eve Listen to the Snake?

Eve had just one commandment: not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge. Yet she ate and invited Adam to do the same. The classic commentators discuss why she ever listened to the snake.
Take the Shabbat Services Quiz

This quiz will help you know how well you know the traditional Shabbat synagogue services.
Voices
Battling My Eating Disorder, Day by Day

I have an eating disorder.The doctors call it anorexia nervosa, but I resent being put in a box with a nice little label.
Parshah
The Moment After You Do Something Terrible

How are we supposed to live with ourselves in the aftermath?
The Gift of New Beginnings

Imagine if there was never a time or opportunity to start over again?
Video
How to Paint a Torah

Watch an art video showing how to make a beautiful painting of a Sefer Torah (a Torah scroll).
Light attracts. Where a lantern is placed, those who seek light gather around.
— Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn of Lubavitch (1880-1950)
Print Magazine

Of the 54 parshiot of the Five Books of Moses, only one is named after a woman. It is called “The Life of Sarah.”

It opens by informing us that Sarah has died.

Yes, this is the life of Sarah. Her true life. Because only in her passing was Sarah’s life fulfilled.

During her lifetime, she and her husband Abraham surveye...

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