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Your Questions
Can I Lend Out My Credit Card to Earn Points?
Your friend gets to make her purchase and you get to rack up some points. Kosher?
Your friend gets to make her purchase and you get to rack up some points. Kosher?
Who Was the Hero of the Book of Job?
The Book of Job explores the morality of Divine justice through the experience of human suffering, primarily the suffering of Job himself.
The Book of Job explores the morality of Divine justice through the experience of human suffering, primarily the suffering of Job himself.
By the Numbers
15 Shabbat Candle Facts Every Jewish Woman (and Man) Should Know
Shabbat candles are lit by Jewish women and girls 18 minutes before sunset every Friday afternoon and on the eve of Jewish holiday.
Shabbat candles are lit by Jewish women and girls 18 minutes before sunset every Friday afternoon and on the eve of Jewish holiday.
Parshah
Whose Life Is It, Anyway?
What is the correlation between life's responsibilities and its rewards? If we "do our best" will G-d give us everything we need, or is reward measured by achievement? The law of the "Four Guardians" as a model for the duties and priviliges of man
What is the correlation between life's responsibilities and its rewards? If we "do our best" will G-d give us everything we need, or is reward measured by achievement? The law of the "Four Guardians" as a model for the duties and priviliges of man
Ten Women, One Oven
The Torah that we study must become part of us. It must not remain a distinct intellectual entity just sitting in our minds. The teachings must become part of our bloodstream, part of our character.
The Torah that we study must become part of us. It must not remain a distinct intellectual entity just sitting in our minds. The teachings must become part of our bloodstream, part of our character.
Women
Try This: No Swearing for One Week
It was at that moment—when she described something as “silly” instead of using a term that was a little saltier—that it struck me. My new friend never swore.
It was at that moment—when she described something as “silly” instead of using a term that was a little saltier—that it struck me. My new friend never swore.
Story
The Mystery Man in the Carriage
With that, he signaled his driver and the carriage sped off before the rabbi had a chance to ask any questions.
With that, he signaled his driver and the carriage sped off before the rabbi had a chance to ask any questions.
Lifestyle
So said the G‑d of the Hebrews: “. . . Let My people go, so that they may serve Me.”
— Moses to Pharaoh, Exodus 10:3
Print Magazine
In Torah, we mirror on earth that which G‑d performs on every plane of reality.
If so, since the Torah prohibits dislocating even a single stone of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, how could it be that G‑d brought the entire structure to ruins?
For it would certainly be absurd to imagine that the Assyrians or the Romans ha...
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