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Tazria-Metzorah
Voices
You Can Leave an Abusive Marriage
When you are in it, it doesn’t feel like abuse. It feels confusing, complicated, like maybe you’re misunderstanding it. You think maybe there will be one magical day, one perfect sentence, a joke you’ll crack, the thing you’ll finally do that will change things.
When you are in it, it doesn’t feel like abuse. It feels confusing, complicated, like maybe you’re misunderstanding it. You think maybe there will be one magical day, one perfect sentence, a joke you’ll crack, the thing you’ll finally do that will change things.
No, Jews Are Not Museum Artifacts
The tour moved on but I trailed behind the group, dwelling on the way the guide hadn’t realized that Jewish people are not museum exhibits.
The tour moved on but I trailed behind the group, dwelling on the way the guide hadn’t realized that Jewish people are not museum exhibits.
Your Questions
Why Wear Shabbat Clothes When Alone?
Since these clothes are worn in honor of Shabbat itself, not in honor of whoever may happen to see you, this applies even when you’re alone.
Since these clothes are worn in honor of Shabbat itself, not in honor of whoever may happen to see you, this applies even when you’re alone.
By the Numbers
Top 20 Yiddish Words You Should Know
In its rich vocabulary, you'll find words that describe the everyday perspective on the Jewish experience. Here are some of our favorite examples.
In its rich vocabulary, you'll find words that describe the everyday perspective on the Jewish experience. Here are some of our favorite examples.
Parshah
Does It Matter Which Words Rashi Quotes?
See how a nuance in a simple one-line Rashi can be examined, unpacked, and understood in an entirely new light.
See how a nuance in a simple one-line Rashi can be examined, unpacked, and understood in an entirely new light.
Your fellow is your mirror. If your own face is clean, the image you perceive will also be flawless. But should you look upon your fellow man and see a blemish, it is your own imperfection that you are encountering -- you are being
shown what it is that you must correct within yourself.
— Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov
Print Magazine
As a parent and a child, as siblings who remain bonded, as two young people in love, as in any marriage that stays alive—so we are with the One Above.
One chases, the other runs away. One runs away, the other chases in longing pursuit. One initiates, the other responds. The other initiates, the one responds.
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