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Ki Teitzei
By the Numbers
19 Facts About the “Mountain Jews”
Virtually cut off from other Jewish centers, the Mountain Jews developed their own way of life.
Virtually cut off from other Jewish centers, the Mountain Jews developed their own way of life.
10 Questions: Take the Medieval Rabbis Quiz
Test your knowledge of the rabbis who shaped post-Talmudic Judaism.
Test your knowledge of the rabbis who shaped post-Talmudic Judaism.
Your Questions
Why Sugar and Garlic at Pidyon Haben?
Various explanations are given for this relatively new custom.
Various explanations are given for this relatively new custom.
Letters of Light
The Freeman Files
King in the Subway
If you heard a world-class violinist in the subway, would you stop to listen? If you met the Master of the Universe while tilling a field, would you go over and talk?
If you heard a world-class violinist in the subway, would you stop to listen? If you met the Master of the Universe while tilling a field, would you go over and talk?
Voices
Finding Serenity in Silence
Even without a voice, even being cut off from most people, I could find my own path to happiness and emotional health.
Even without a voice, even being cut off from most people, I could find my own path to happiness and emotional health.
Parshah
Beautiful Women on the Battlefield and the Power of ‘No’
Torah doesn’t permit us to have whatever we want just because we want it.
Torah doesn’t permit us to have whatever we want just because we want it.
Rabbi Yossei the son of Judah of Kfar HaBavli would
say: One who learns Torah from youngsters, whom is he comparable to? To one who
eats unripe grapes and drinks [unfermented] wine from the press. One who learns
Torah from the old, whom is he comparable to? To one who eats ripened grapes and
drinks aged wine.
Said Rabbi Meir: Look not at the vessel, but at what it contains. There are new vessels that are filled with old wine, and old vessels that do not even contain new wine.
Said Rabbi Meir: Look not at the vessel, but at what it contains. There are new vessels that are filled with old wine, and old vessels that do not even contain new wine.
— Ethics of the Fathers, 4:20
Print Magazine
Due to the limitations of your reality, some of your best friends can enter only incognito.
In fact, the really big ones sometimes sneak in disguised as ugly monsters and vicious enemies. Otherwise, the guards at the gate would never permit them entry.
These are the events optimists call “blessings in disguise.”
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