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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.
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…”
Does a Soul Choose Its Family?

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.
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.
Quiz
Take the Hillel Quiz

What do you know about this great sage?
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.
Eikev: Leaving Jerusalem

From high definition to ordinary life: A meditation on identity, memory, and the challenge of not forgetting.
Parshah
Watch Out for That Last Thread

Anxious 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 you see the donkey of your enemy collapsing under its load, and are inclined to desist from helping him, you shall surely help along with him.
— Exodus 23:5
Print Magazine

For hundreds of years, perhaps since the beginning of Creation, a piece of the world has been waiting for your soul to purify and repair it.

And your soul, from the time it was first emanated and conceived, waited above to descend to this world and carry out that mission.

And your footsteps were guided to reach th...

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