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Vayikra
By the Numbers
14 Facts About the Jews of Thailand
Would you believe that it is a place where thousands reconnect with their Judaism?
Would you believe that it is a place where thousands reconnect with their Judaism?
15 Facts You Should Know About the Sale of Chametz
One of the most important steps in getting ready for Passover is selling your chametz (leavened food) to a non-Jew. But why do we do this, and how does it actually work?
One of the most important steps in getting ready for Passover is selling your chametz (leavened food) to a non-Jew. But why do we do this, and how does it actually work?
Your Questions
Freeman Files
The Real Reason Some People Never Ask Questions
How is it that a perfectly capable and intelligent person can have no questions on a night rigged for questions?
How is it that a perfectly capable and intelligent person can have no questions on a night rigged for questions?
Voices
The Proud Jew I Want to Become
With his beard, yarmulke, and tzitzit on full display, Jon is very visibly Jewish.
With his beard, yarmulke, and tzitzit on full display, Jon is very visibly Jewish.
Parshah
What is the Point of Animal Sacrifices?
Why would an infinite, all-knowing, omnipotent G‑d wish for people to offer up animal sacrifices? It seems to be a pointless waste of resources and needless dispensing of life.
Why would an infinite, all-knowing, omnipotent G‑d wish for people to offer up animal sacrifices? It seems to be a pointless waste of resources and needless dispensing of life.
Lifestyle
Learning From the Rebbe
If you only knew the power of verses of Psalms and their effect in the highest Heavens, you would recite them constantly. Know that the chapters of Psalms shatter all barriers, they ascend higher and still higher with no interference; they prostrate themselves in supplication before the Master of all worlds, and they effect and accomplish with kindness and compassion.
— Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch ("Tzemach Tzeddek, 1789-1866)
Print Magazine
In the month of Elul, the month before Rosh Hashanah, a signal goes out to every Jewish soul that it is time to return to the palace that is home.
It is a signal both subtle and loud.
Subtle, because it does not awaken even those who are closest—every soul must awaken itself. Loud, because it reaches those who have been...
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