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By the Numbers
13 Obscure Mitzvahs You Should Know

As we celebrate Shavuot, when G-d gave us the Torah and all its mitzvahs, let’s explore 13 mitzvahs you may never have heard of!
10 Questions: Take the Sephardic Rabbis Quiz

Do you know which rabbi was also a military commander?
Your Questions
What Shape Were the Luchot: Round, Square or Rectangular?

The main source for this erroneous image seems to come from Christian art during the Renaissance . . .
What Does the Name Tzipporah Mean?

The Midrash explains that just as a bird is admired for its beauty, Tzipporah was admired for her loveliness.
Podcasts
Everything Jewish You Need to Know This Week

In today’s episode, we’ve got the New York Subway System, surprise weddings, and; a very toxic workplace environment; it’s time for your jewish week.
Rising to the Challenge

Today, she is a world-renowned expert and author on challah. It all began when she found herself in Japan, expected to bake challah for hundreds. She has since found spirituality, tradition, and her own identity in baking and taking challah.
Parshah
Everyone Is Special

Though we are doing the same actions, the mitzvahs are as unique as the individuals performing them. No one can do your mitzvah.
Video
Why We Need to Ask for Moshiach

Can't we just rely on G-d to bring it at the appropriate time?
G-d transforms spirituality into physicality; the Jew makes physical things spiritual
— Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov
Print Magazine

Yom Kippur is a day of forgiveness for those who return.

But then, every day is a day of forgiveness for those who return.

Yet Yom Kippur is an entirely different story. 

Because on any other day when a soul returns, her misdeeds are discarded.

On Yom Kippur, when a soul returns, she is held in tight embrace. 

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