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Mishpatim
By the Numbers
17 Facts About the Rebbetzin
Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka shied away from the limelight and rarely appeared in public, where she would undoubtedly be celebrated as the revered rebbetzin.
Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka shied away from the limelight and rarely appeared in public, where she would undoubtedly be celebrated as the revered rebbetzin.
Your Questions
Who Is Responsible When Children Break Things?
One of my neighbors’ kids was playing near my home and damaged my property. Are the parents supposed to pay for it?
One of my neighbors’ kids was playing near my home and damaged my property. Are the parents supposed to pay for it?
Parshah
How to Become a Holy People
Why are such exacting measures taken regarding the mixture of meat and milk, and how does it further our mission of becoming a holy nation?
Why are such exacting measures taken regarding the mixture of meat and milk, and how does it further our mission of becoming a holy nation?
For Your Mishpatim Study Group (PDF)
This weekly study packet is part of theJewishwoman.org “Be a Leader” initiative. Print it out and learn it with your study group.
This weekly study packet is part of theJewishwoman.org “Be a Leader” initiative. Print it out and learn it with your study group.
You’re Unique, Just Like Everyone Else
What is the connection between the half-shekel tax and kilayim, the prohibition of forbidden mixtures? Why does the Mishnah lump the two together?
What is the connection between the half-shekel tax and kilayim, the prohibition of forbidden mixtures? Why does the Mishnah lump the two together?
Concluding the Conference
History
The 1912 Mystery of the Body on the Oklahoma Tracks
Who was Mottel Breslau, and how did he end up on the tracks out in the lands belonging to the Seminole Nation?
Who was Mottel Breslau, and how did he end up on the tracks out in the lands belonging to the Seminole Nation?
The Hasty Departure
For many years the inn had provided his family a decent living, but recently, the landlord had greatly raised the rent and it was straining his bottom line.
For many years the inn had provided his family a decent living, but recently, the landlord had greatly raised the rent and it was straining his bottom line.
World News
Henya Federman, 40, Devoted Her Life to Locals and Visitors on the Virgin Islands
Inspired thousands to increase their connection to G-d and spread goodness and kindness across the globe
Inspired thousands to increase their connection to G-d and spread goodness and kindness across the globe
Essay
What Should You Feel When You Pray?
Prayer is about developing this relationship with G‑d, and experiencing real emotions of the G‑dly soul.
Prayer is about developing this relationship with G‑d, and experiencing real emotions of the G‑dly soul.
First Person
There are two ways to get warm on a cold winter day: a) build a fire, which warms everyone else in the room as well; or b) wrap yourself in furs, which conserves your own warmth but does not generate any heat or warm anyone else. Thus chassidim would say: “Don’t be a tzaddik in a fur coat!”
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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