ב"ה
Beshalach
By the Numbers
Did You Know That Many Yemenites Can Read Hebrew Upside Down?
Read 18 incredible facts about Yemenite Jews
Read 18 incredible facts about Yemenite Jews
10 Questions: Take the Rebecca Quiz
How well do you know the Matriarch Rebecca? Test your knowledge!
How well do you know the Matriarch Rebecca? Test your knowledge!
Essay
Upward Without Limit
G-d’s infinite concealment and ascent is just as accessible as G-d’s infinite revelation and descent.
G-d’s infinite concealment and ascent is just as accessible as G-d’s infinite revelation and descent.
Schrödinger’s Rabbi: The Talmud’s Mind-Bending Take on Reality
Quantum logic helps explain a halachic ruling of Maimonides, a puzzling story of the Talmud, a Midrash about the splitting of the Sea of Reeds, and a rabbinic teaching about the relationship between Torah and existence.
Quantum logic helps explain a halachic ruling of Maimonides, a puzzling story of the Talmud, a Midrash about the splitting of the Sea of Reeds, and a rabbinic teaching about the relationship between Torah and existence.
Podcasts
Everything Jewish You Need to Know This Week
In today’s episode, we’ve got rabbi-beating berserker ladies, fake Hungarians, and some sadly deceased horses.
In today’s episode, we’ve got rabbi-beating berserker ladies, fake Hungarians, and some sadly deceased horses.
I Was a Teen and He Died in My Arms
She needed to overcome her trauma to mother her own children. A trained psychotherapist, Dr. Robyn Koslowitz now helps others do the same.
She needed to overcome her trauma to mother her own children. A trained psychotherapist, Dr. Robyn Koslowitz now helps others do the same.
History
Parshah
Why Did Pharaoh Pursue the Jews?
After enduring the devastation of the Ten Plagues, what sense did it make for the Egyptians to pursue the Israelites?
After enduring the devastation of the Ten Plagues, what sense did it make for the Egyptians to pursue the Israelites?
I Cry and Pray to G-d, but Illness Has Not Broken My Spirit
Sometimes it feels like we are in an impossible situation, everything seems to be against us, and we are backed against a raging tide.
Sometimes it feels like we are in an impossible situation, everything seems to be against us, and we are backed against a raging tide.
Voices
Unexpected Miracles
I first discovered the teachings of the Rebbe during the Covid shutdown. Many wonderful things have since happened.
I first discovered the teachings of the Rebbe during the Covid shutdown. Many wonderful things have since happened.
Video
The Mystery of the Mongolian Genocide
A brief documentary on the tiny Mongolian Jewish community and their quest to honor the victims of a little-known mass murder of the country's Jews.
A brief documentary on the tiny Mongolian Jewish community and their quest to honor the victims of a little-known mass murder of the country's Jews.
How G-d Is Hiding in Your Struggle
Unpacking the powerful message of the monumental Chassidic discourse ‘Basi LeGani’, with a focus on the 15th chapter, which is widely being studied this year in preparation for the 10th of Shevat.
Unpacking the powerful message of the monumental Chassidic discourse ‘Basi LeGani’, with a focus on the 15th chapter, which is widely being studied this year in preparation for the 10th of Shevat.
Jewish News
Lifestyle
When laying siege on a city to conquer it, we do not surround it from all four sides, but only from three sides, leaving a way to escape for anyone who wishes to flee for his life. As it is written: "And they warred against Midian, as G-d commanded Moses" (Numbers 31:7)--it has been handed down by tradition that this is what G-d had commanded him.
— Maimonides' Mishneh Torah, Laws of Kings and their Wars, 6:7
Print Magazine
The sages say that all is in the hands of heaven except for the awe of heaven.
Which puts all the power in your hands.
Because if there is no awe of heaven, heaven is bankrupt. It owns nothing—not you, not your world, not anything at all.
That being so, the greatest power you have is your ability to surrender the delus...
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