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How is it possible that we’ve “moved on” from the deadliest act of violence against Jews in the history of the United States?
It appears in his last book, Moses and Monotheism, a strange work if ever there was one. It was published in 1939, by which time Freud had taken refuge in Britain . . .
G‑d met Moses in a burning bush, and requested that he become His messenger to take the Israelites out of Egypt.
In the Book of Exodus, we are introduced to Zipporah, the daughter of Jethro, wife of Moses and mother of their two sons, Gershom and Eliezer.
Tribal affiliation follows the direct paternal line, while the question of Jewishness follows the maternal line. Does this mean that genetic testing is a valid way of ascertaining whether one is Jewish or a kohen?
My husband proposed to me on our third date. That’s pretty unusual, even for a Chassidic girl and boy.
“You’re a wonderful person,” he states, matter-of-factly. His serene face portrays no emotion, but his eyes smile when he utters the words. I know he is sincere, yet at this moment I’m not quite ready to believe him. He is a rabbi, I am my mother’s caregiver, and I have come to see him for spiritual guidance.
With time, the tailor turned gray and decided to travel to visit his daughter…
A lesson based on Moses's complaint to G-d that the divine plan to redeem the Israelites from Egypt actually made their lives worse.
Faced with the prospect of their baby boys being killed by the Egyptians, the Jews in Egypt followed the lead of Amram, the father of Moses, in flouting Pharaoh's decrees and continuing to have children. These young boys would become the generation to leave the bondage in Egypt and perceive revealed G-dliness at the splitting of the Red Sea.
Rabbi Matisyahu Devlin shares his story of unexpectedly discovering his Judaism.
More than Rosh Hashanah is about the One Above, it is about us below.
He created the world. But we drive it to its destiny.
That is why it is called “the beginning of Your works”—even though it is not the anniversary of the creation of the universe, but of the human being. It is the true beginning, as all of time begins ...
