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By the Numbers
13 Facts You Should Know About the Ten Plagues
A key part of the Exodus story—they demonstrated G-d’s power and delivered justice to Egypt.
A key part of the Exodus story—they demonstrated G-d’s power and delivered justice to Egypt.
Your Questions
Can a DNA Test Determine Jewish Status?
Tribal affiliation follows the direct paternal line, while the question of Jewishness follows the maternal line. Does this mean that genetic testing is a valid way of ascertaining whether one is Jewish or a kohen?
Tribal affiliation follows the direct paternal line, while the question of Jewishness follows the maternal line. Does this mean that genetic testing is a valid way of ascertaining whether one is Jewish or a kohen?
Was the Holocaust a Punishment from G‑d?
Why can we say that biblical tragedies were punishments, yet contemporary ones are “the mysterious way of G-d”? Have today’s rabbis changed their perception of G-d to fit what’s politically correct?
Why can we say that biblical tragedies were punishments, yet contemporary ones are “the mysterious way of G-d”? Have today’s rabbis changed their perception of G-d to fit what’s politically correct?
Halachah for Life
What You Need to Know About Baking
Learn when you must separate challah and how to bake parve bread in a meat or dairy oven.
Learn when you must separate challah and how to bake parve bread in a meat or dairy oven.
Parshah
Why Did the Jews Smear Blood on their Lintels?
Did G-d need a marker to protect the Jews during the Plague of the Firstborn?
Did G-d need a marker to protect the Jews during the Plague of the Firstborn?
Know Who You Are
We are a truly free people. We must never feel that we need to be like anyone else.
We are a truly free people. We must never feel that we need to be like anyone else.
Transgressions of man towards G-d -- Yom Kippur atones for them. Transgressions of man towards man, Yom Kippur does not atone for them until one seeks forgiveness from one's fellow.
— Talmud, Yoma 85b
Print Magazine
Esau said, “I have a lot.”
Jacob said, “I have all.” As in “all I need.”
Esau had a family of six. They were called “six souls.” Plural.
Jacob had a family of seventy. They were called “seventy soul.” Singular.
Esau lived in a granular, tossed-together, fragmented world in which he collected a lot of things ...
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