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Acharei
By the Numbers
12 Facts You Should Know About Pirkei Avot (Ethics of the Fathers)
Learn about the Talmudic tractate devoted to Jewish morals, customarily studied between Passover and Shavuot.
Learn about the Talmudic tractate devoted to Jewish morals, customarily studied between Passover and Shavuot.
Your Questions
Why Do Jews Sit Shivah for Seven Days?
Did you know that mourning for seven days is an ancient custom that predates the giving of the Torah? Learn all about it here.
Did you know that mourning for seven days is an ancient custom that predates the giving of the Torah? Learn all about it here.
Essay
Death by Secrets
Let’s take a story, a really strange one. One that can’t mean what it says, but nevertheless is screaming that it must. Let’s apply what we’ve learned, and see how this one works out.
Let’s take a story, a really strange one. One that can’t mean what it says, but nevertheless is screaming that it must. Let’s apply what we’ve learned, and see how this one works out.
Halachah For Life
Milestone
Jay Litvin (1944-2004)
You turn on the computer and this man appears, sits across the table from you for several hours, and shares something of his innermost self with you...
You turn on the computer and this man appears, sits across the table from you for several hours, and shares something of his innermost self with you...
Parshah
The Scapegoat Within
It makes sense that the goat offered to G-d should be the best and the nicest, but why does the scapegoat need to be perfect?
It makes sense that the goat offered to G-d should be the best and the nicest, but why does the scapegoat need to be perfect?
Every spiritual malady has a cure, except for pride
— Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov (1698-1760)
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We don’t learn Torah to gain knowledge—not even divine knowledge. At the time you are learning Torah, your mind itself is divine.
Your mind wraps itself in divine modalities. Your soul twirls and rises in a divine dance. As you wrestle with divine words, pathways and wisdom, you merge with them, so that your entire being...
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