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What Is the Jewish View on AI and Intellectual Property?
The emergence of AI technology raises new questions and challenges for Jewish law to consider.
The emergence of AI technology raises new questions and challenges for Jewish law to consider.
What Is the Deeper Significance of the Tallit?
The garment surrounds our body; the fringes hang off it. They represent the two aspects of G-d’s being: His true self that is totally beyond our grasp, and the tiny fraction of His being we can experience.
The garment surrounds our body; the fringes hang off it. They represent the two aspects of G-d’s being: His true self that is totally beyond our grasp, and the tiny fraction of His being we can experience.
Essay
The Rebbe’s Lag BaOmer Message of Hope to Soviet Jewry
The 1980 Russian-language address that took the world by surprise and placed the Soviet regime on notice
The 1980 Russian-language address that took the world by surprise and placed the Soviet regime on notice
May the Morning Shema Be Recited All Day?
Analysis of the argument that kriat shema may be recited the entire day.
Analysis of the argument that kriat shema may be recited the entire day.
By the Numbers
17 Facts About Lag BaOmer
Explore the customs associated with Lag BaOmer, a day of mysticism, bonfires, and celebration!
Explore the customs associated with Lag BaOmer, a day of mysticism, bonfires, and celebration!
Parshah
A Mirror Relationship: As Man Acts, G-d Reacts
Our life experiences are not random but significant—too important to be regulated by mere chance.
Our life experiences are not random but significant—too important to be regulated by mere chance.
Hakhel Resources
For Your Behar-Bechukotai Hakhel 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.
Story
The Disgraced Woman’s Successful Cry of Anguish
The remarkable story of a young woman who married a wagon driver and raised a family of Torah scholars.
The remarkable story of a young woman who married a wagon driver and raised a family of Torah scholars.
Voices
How to Be Calm When the Cupboard Is Bare
G‑d can give us a family, a car, a house and a job, and I may not enjoy any of it. Why? Because no matter how good it is now, the shakiness of what about tomorrow steals the show and scares me.
G‑d can give us a family, a car, a house and a job, and I may not enjoy any of it. Why? Because no matter how good it is now, the shakiness of what about tomorrow steals the show and scares me.
It’s OK Not to Be Normal
Rachel taught us that the way to work on the not normal is by staying calm. To understand that within the range of normal, there are different personalities.
Rachel taught us that the way to work on the not normal is by staying calm. To understand that within the range of normal, there are different personalities.
Lifestyle
How to Eat Carob (and Why We Eat it on Lag BaOmer)
Technically, you can gnaw on raw carob pods, but it’s hard work and not the most pleasant experience.
Technically, you can gnaw on raw carob pods, but it’s hard work and not the most pleasant experience.
As they set out from their place above, each soul is male and female as one. Only as they descend to this world do they part, each to its own side. And then it is the One Above who unites them again. This is His exclusive domain, for He alone knows which soul belongs to which and how they must reunite.
— Zohar (Book I, 85b)
Print Magazine
In the month of Elul, the month before Rosh Hashanah, a signal goes out to every Jewish soul that it is time to return to the palace that is home.
It is a signal both subtle and loud.
Subtle, because it does not awaken even those who are closest—every soul must awaken itself. Loud, because it reaches those who have been...
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