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Honoring Rabbi Lord Sacks
Learn From Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Subscribe to a weekly email to mark the first anniversary of his passing and celebrate a life of achievement.
Subscribe to a weekly email to mark the first anniversary of his passing and celebrate a life of achievement.
By the Numbers
8 Once-in-a-Generation Jewish Rituals
Some mitzvahs are done daily, weekly, or annually. But there are some that happen so seldom that many of us are lucky if we experience them even once or twice over the course of our lives.
Some mitzvahs are done daily, weekly, or annually. But there are some that happen so seldom that many of us are lucky if we experience them even once or twice over the course of our lives.
10 Questions: Take the Jewish Funeral Quiz
Accompanying the deceased to his or her final resting place is a tremendous mitzvah and displays great respect. See how much you know about Jewish funerals with this quiz.
Accompanying the deceased to his or her final resting place is a tremendous mitzvah and displays great respect. See how much you know about Jewish funerals with this quiz.
Learning Center
Why Are Jews Buried in White Linen Shrouds?
This dates back two millennia to the times of Rabban Gamliel the Elder in the early 1st century.
This dates back two millennia to the times of Rabban Gamliel the Elder in the early 1st century.
Parshah
Do You Own What You Have?
Abraham appreciated a simple yet sometimes difficult truth: if you want to make something truly yours, you must pay for it.
Abraham appreciated a simple yet sometimes difficult truth: if you want to make something truly yours, you must pay for it.
What Was Double About Me’arat Hamachpelah?
The Rebbe provides an interpretation of Rashi’s commentary that overturns nearly a thousand years of presumed understanding.
The Rebbe provides an interpretation of Rashi’s commentary that overturns nearly a thousand years of presumed understanding.
How to Live Life
All of her years were equal, parallel, identical, even-steven for good? Is this possible?
All of her years were equal, parallel, identical, even-steven for good? Is this possible?
Perspective
A Dollar, a Story, and the (Re)union of Eliezer and Devorah
The divine providence found in an engagement, a breakup, and a reunion years later in Jerusalem.
The divine providence found in an engagement, a breakup, and a reunion years later in Jerusalem.
Faith During Miscarriage
I meditate on the idea that my baby is in a loving, nurturing and beautiful place. I imagine that every soul before birth chooses an earthly mother as a vehicle to this world. I am honored to have been part of my son’s journey.
I meditate on the idea that my baby is in a loving, nurturing and beautiful place. I imagine that every soul before birth chooses an earthly mother as a vehicle to this world. I am honored to have been part of my son’s journey.
Counterpressure: What Is the Purpose of All My Struggles?
The soul is not here for itself, but to refine and elevate the animal soul.
The soul is not here for itself, but to refine and elevate the animal soul.
Ordinary Kids Doing Extraordinary Things
It provides me with strength and happiness that the future will be bright because our children are making the world a better place.
It provides me with strength and happiness that the future will be bright because our children are making the world a better place.
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A boor cannot be sin-fearing, an ignoramus cannot be pious; a bashful one cannot learn, a short-tempered person cannot teach; nor does anyone who does much business grow wise.
— Hillel (Ethics of the Fathers 2:5)
Print Magazine
That force that holds electrons in their orbit and planets in theirs, explodes incessantly within the stars above and is the darkness that fills the empty space—that force is a single whole, and it is G‑d.
It is not all of G‑d. It is an expression of G‑d. All of it could disappear in a single instant, and for Him nothin...
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