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Ekev
By the Numbers
14 Simple and Surprising Things Jews Do With Fire
Fire enhances life in a great many ways, while simultaneously being one of the most dangerous substances on earth.
Fire enhances life in a great many ways, while simultaneously being one of the most dangerous substances on earth.
Your Questions
Why Does a Husband Stay Home During the First Year?
“When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army…”
“When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army…”
Does a Soul Choose Its Family?
Judaism teaches that G-d chooses who our parents are, where we are born, and when.
Judaism teaches that G-d chooses who our parents are, where we are born, and when.
Voices
My Friend Sami Rohr, the Torah Scholar
Honoring a patron of Jewish life on his yahrzeit, 17 Menachem Av.
Honoring a patron of Jewish life on his yahrzeit, 17 Menachem Av.
Freeman Files
Heels Over Head
Every mitzvah, even a simple rule that we would have figured out on our own, is part of a covenant and connection that entirely transcends our limited reality.
Every mitzvah, even a simple rule that we would have figured out on our own, is part of a covenant and connection that entirely transcends our limited reality.
Quiz
Podcasts
Syncing With My Soulmate
After she left a Christian cult, she reconnected with her boyfriend--now husband--and embarked on a life journey of sharing Judaism with others.
After she left a Christian cult, she reconnected with her boyfriend--now husband--and embarked on a life journey of sharing Judaism with others.
Eikev: Leaving Jerusalem
From high definition to ordinary life: A meditation on identity, memory, and the challenge of not forgetting.
From high definition to ordinary life: A meditation on identity, memory, and the challenge of not forgetting.
Parshah
Video
All Year Round
When it comes to educating young children, how could yeshivas or Jewish schools shut down for the summer? Torah is our life-source, so how can one stop learning for even one day of the year?!
When it comes to educating young children, how could yeshivas or Jewish schools shut down for the summer? Torah is our life-source, so how can one stop learning for even one day of the year?!
Jewish News
How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy dwellings, O Israel!
— The Moabite prophet Balaam on the people of Israel, Numbers 24:5-6
Print Magazine
Blind faith believes that which it is told, because it wants to believe.
Intellect believes that which it understands, because it wants to attain understanding.
Wisdom believes that which is true, because it is true.
Wisdom doesn’t have to fit that which some self-serving faith wishes to believe. Neither does it await...
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