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By the Numbers
11 Common Shabbat Myths and Misconceptions
Myths and misconceptions have developed around this holy day. Ready to take a good look at them and set the record straight? Let’s go!
Myths and misconceptions have developed around this holy day. Ready to take a good look at them and set the record straight? Let’s go!
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Finding What You Didn’t Lose
The “Second Passover” sacrifice was offered as a makeup for the paschal sacrifice, for someone who was ritually impure or too far away from the Temple at the time of Passover. On the other hand, the commentaries explain that the Second Passover is also a celebration in its own right.
The “Second Passover” sacrifice was offered as a makeup for the paschal sacrifice, for someone who was ritually impure or too far away from the Temple at the time of Passover. On the other hand, the commentaries explain that the Second Passover is also a celebration in its own right.
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Why Does Only Pesach Have a Make-Up Day?
Discover the historical and mystical reason why this is the only holiday observance that can be made up one month later.
Discover the historical and mystical reason why this is the only holiday observance that can be made up one month later.
Inspiration
Secret Weapon: How This 34-Year-Old Father Survived Coronavirus
The media cannot explain how this man came back from the brink, but we have the inside scoop.
The media cannot explain how this man came back from the brink, but we have the inside scoop.
A Mother’s Day Train Ride Taught Me It’s All About Attitude
My eyes closed and focused within, and my breathing deep, I noticed myself in the midst of a family conversation.
My eyes closed and focused within, and my breathing deep, I noticed myself in the midst of a family conversation.
An Abuse Survivor's Birthday
Gain a searing insight into the inner battle that rages as one man’s children prepare to celebrate his special day.
Gain a searing insight into the inner battle that rages as one man’s children prepare to celebrate his special day.
The Lonely G-d
We may distract ourselves, party away, get carried off by all types of stimulation and entertainment; but at the end of the day, that silent, isolated center beckons from within...
We may distract ourselves, party away, get carried off by all types of stimulation and entertainment; but at the end of the day, that silent, isolated center beckons from within...
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Show Me the Dough!
Our relationship with bread is the model for our interaction with all aspects of the world around us.
Our relationship with bread is the model for our interaction with all aspects of the world around us.
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Lifestyle
When laying siege on a city to conquer it, we do not surround it from all four sides, but only from three sides, leaving a way to escape for anyone who wishes to flee for his life. As it is written: "And they warred against Midian, as G-d commanded Moses" (Numbers 31:7)--it has been handed down by tradition that this is what G-d had commanded him.
— Maimonides' Mishneh Torah, Laws of Kings and their Wars, 6:7
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Before your soul descended to this world, it was determined she would succeed. If not in this lifetime, then in another, or yet another—eventually she will fulfill her entire mission.
And in each lifetime, she will move further ahead.
It was this knowledge that conceived her.
It was this inspiration that brought the wo...
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