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Your Questions
How to Observe Judaism in Outer Space?
When to pray? When is Shabbat? What to do when time and space are not what they are on earth?
When to pray? When is Shabbat? What to do when time and space are not what they are on earth?
Who Are the Hebrews?
What does the word "Hebrew" mean? And how did that become the name of the first Jews?
What does the word "Hebrew" mean? And how did that become the name of the first Jews?
Quiz: Do You Know Enough Yiddish to Order Cholent in Monsey?
Take our 10-part test to see how well you know Yiddish (and have a few laughs along the way).
Take our 10-part test to see how well you know Yiddish (and have a few laughs along the way).
By the Numbers
Jewish Symbols and Their Meanings
During the course of our history, many symbols have become associated with Jewish people, Jewish scholarship, and Jewish culture.
During the course of our history, many symbols have become associated with Jewish people, Jewish scholarship, and Jewish culture.
38 Folk Sayings From the Talmud
Occasionally, the sages of the Talmud quote Jewish folk sayings which convey great depth and spiritual insight.
Occasionally, the sages of the Talmud quote Jewish folk sayings which convey great depth and spiritual insight.
7 Jewish Parenting Principles, Inspired by Experience
These 7 Jewish parenting principles can help you go from bearish to bullish on your best long-term investment.
These 7 Jewish parenting principles can help you go from bearish to bullish on your best long-term investment.
Parshah
Why Is Inviting Guests Such a Mitzvah?
Bringing people into our space can be quite exposing and maybe even embarrassing, but it is one of the greatest forms of kindness and the epitome of sharing our bounty.
Bringing people into our space can be quite exposing and maybe even embarrassing, but it is one of the greatest forms of kindness and the epitome of sharing our bounty.
When You Are About to Give Up
Sometimes, doing our bit means going out of our tent, our comfort zone, and demonstrating our determination to do all we can to turn that hope into our reality.
Sometimes, doing our bit means going out of our tent, our comfort zone, and demonstrating our determination to do all we can to turn that hope into our reality.
Women
When I Gave My Necklace to a Woman With Cancer
When I follow my inner voice—what I call “a whisper from G‑d”—without question or hesitation, I never know where it will lead.
When I follow my inner voice—what I call “a whisper from G‑d”—without question or hesitation, I never know where it will lead.
Video
Behind Every Great Jewish Man Is a Great Jewish Mother
Sarah, the first Jewish mother, is a shining example of the great power that every woman has over her family and our entire nation. It was Sarah who insisted that Isaac, not Ishmael, continue Abraham’s progeny. It was she who raised Isaac in his formative years, instilling within him the fortitude to stand up to all tests, and to become the second Patriarch of the Jewish People.
Sarah, the first Jewish mother, is a shining example of the great power that every woman has over her family and our entire nation. It was Sarah who insisted that Isaac, not Ishmael, continue Abraham’s progeny. It was she who raised Isaac in his formative years, instilling within him the fortitude to stand up to all tests, and to become the second Patriarch of the Jewish People.
Story
The Simple Villager Who Wanted to Help
Heartbroken and spent from his efforts, Reb Berel slumped to the ground in abject misery.
Heartbroken and spent from his efforts, Reb Berel slumped to the ground in abject misery.
Lifestyle
...and so it is with every created thing: if the letters of the "ten utterances" with which G-d created the world during the six days of creation were to depart from it for but an instant, G-d forbid, it would revert to absolute nothingness
— Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi
Print Magazine
On Simchat Torah we dance with our feet, not with our heads.
We are celebrating the Torah, and the Torah is something we study with our heads. But we dance with our feet, not with our heads.
If we would dance with our heads, each one would dance a different dance, each in a different space, some with friends but not wit...
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