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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.
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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?
My G-d, the soul You placed within me, it is pure; You created it, You formed it, You breathed it into me, You preserve it within me, You will take it from me and return it to me in a future time...
— From the daily morning prayers
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The sound of the shofar
is not the cry of a human voice.
It is the howl of an animal’s horn.
It is a cry so primal, so raw,
that the mind ceases to ponder,
the heart suspends its throb.
With the fury of a beast pent up in its cage,
the naked essence of the soul bursts out,
howling, ripping through heaven’s c...
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