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Shoftim

By the Numbers
10 Wild Facts About Bears in Judaism

They once roamed the Land of Israel and are mentioned quite often in the Bible and Talmudic literature.
Your Questions
Am I Responsible if My AI System Causes Damage?

Although the Torah's laws of damages existed long before computers, they provide categories and insight through which the laws and ethics of new technologies can be analyzed.
Quiz
Take the Hebrew Alphabet Quiz

Do you know your aleph from your bet? We bet you can do this one!
Freeman Files
Who Created G‑d?

The Creator of all boundaries is unbounded by any definition. Otherwise, He too would require a creator.
Podcasts
This Jew Spent 20 Years in an Ashram

A "chance" encounter with a rabbi and a medical scare rekindled Arnie Herz's Jewish soul and inspired him to live a full Jewish life and share it it with others.
Shoftim: The Other Man

Who returns when the battle ends?
Story
“You Didn't Even Ask!”

The itinerary was prepared, locations were secured, families signed up, and everything was ready to go. There was just one final step: They wanted the Rebbe's blessing.
Parshah
The Woodchopper's Secret

Anxious Parshah
When Guilt Is Unanimous

Can a unanimous guilty verdict actually set a defendant free? A legal analysis of Rambam’s ruling on what happens when every judge on the Sanhedrin finds a capital defendant guilty without finding any merit.
Lifestyle
Marinated Summer Pasta Salad

Video
“I Am My Beloved’s, My Beloved Is Mine”

The sages teach that “Elul” is an acronym for the verse in Song of Songs: “I am my Beloved’s and my Beloved is mine.”
Not only myself did G-d redeem on this day... but also every one who goes by the name "Israel"
— The sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, in a letter written for the first anniversary of his release from Soviet imprisonment in 1927
Print Magazine

We all suffer a maddening delusion of being something separate from G‑d. The delusion of “I.”

We cannot heal it, because yes, we exist, for He created us.

We cannot live with it, because this chilling notion of otherness is a denial of the truth.

But we can resolve it in the act of learning Torah. In learning Torah, He...