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Vayeshev
By the Numbers
Who Was Antiochus?
Learn about the evil king who oppressed the Jews and defiled the Temple in the Hanukkah story.
Learn about the evil king who oppressed the Jews and defiled the Temple in the Hanukkah story.
10 Questions:Take the Kosher Animal Quiz
Get ready to test your skills. Can you identify kosher animals?
Get ready to test your skills. Can you identify kosher animals?
Your Questions
Why Add a Light Each Night of Chanukah?
The Talmud gives two reasons: to indicate the night and because we always ascend rather than descend.
The Talmud gives two reasons: to indicate the night and because we always ascend rather than descend.
Chanukah
How to Light the Menorah
Breeze through the Hanukkah menorah lighting with a step by step guide on everything from which menorah is kosher to how to arrange and light your own menorah.
Breeze through the Hanukkah menorah lighting with a step by step guide on everything from which menorah is kosher to how to arrange and light your own menorah.
Halachah for Life
What to Know About Spending Shabbat in a Hotel
Successfully navigate electronic doors and sensors, carrying, and other challenges.
Successfully navigate electronic doors and sensors, carrying, and other challenges.
Hebrew Word of the Week
Voices
Dad Was In Prison, and I Didn't Know If I Was Jewish
On the windowsill stood a silver candelabra large enough to hold nine candles and a box of tall candles. I understood I was being initiated into a rite I hadn’t known existed until that moment.
On the windowsill stood a silver candelabra large enough to hold nine candles and a box of tall candles. I understood I was being initiated into a rite I hadn’t known existed until that moment.
Parshah
Story
The Miracle of the Missing Menorah
Whether it was a silver goblet, an ornate spice box, or the Shabbat candlesticks, all they could do was acknowledge the disappearance
Whether it was a silver goblet, an ornate spice box, or the Shabbat candlesticks, all they could do was acknowledge the disappearance
May it be Your will before You, that the Holy Temple should be built speedily in our days, and grant us our portion in your Torah
— From the Daily Prayers
Print Magazine
Intellect is inadequate because not all things can be explained. Intellect needs faith.
Faith is impotent because it remains forever obscure. Faith needs intellect.
But they are opposites, as contradictory as yes and no:
Faith accepts; Intellect questions.
Faith surrenders; Intellect struggles.
Miraculously, ther...
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