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Bo
Essay
How Do Mezuzahs Work?
How on earth does a parchment scroll with Hebrew inscriptions increase your personal safety? Here is how the great rabbis understood it.
How on earth does a parchment scroll with Hebrew inscriptions increase your personal safety? Here is how the great rabbis understood it.
Why Are Tefillin From Animal Hide?
Here are two explanations that the mystics give as to why tefillin needs to be made of leather.
Here are two explanations that the mystics give as to why tefillin needs to be made of leather.
How Does Prayer Replicate Sacrifices?
There is another purpose to daily prayer that is relevant to everyone.
There is another purpose to daily prayer that is relevant to everyone.
By the Numbers
18 Myths and Facts About Judaism and Jewish People
Here are some of the greatest and most persistent myths about Judaism and the Jewish people. How many of them are new to you?
Here are some of the greatest and most persistent myths about Judaism and the Jewish people. How many of them are new to you?
Parshah
For Your Bo Study Group (PDF)
This weekly study packet is part of theJewishwoman.org “Be a Leader” initiative. Print it out and learn it with your study group.
This weekly study packet is part of theJewishwoman.org “Be a Leader” initiative. Print it out and learn it with your study group.
Why the Rush to Leave Egypt?
Our ancestors had spent 210 years in Egypt. They couldn’t wait a few more hours? Why the mad rush?
Our ancestors had spent 210 years in Egypt. They couldn’t wait a few more hours? Why the mad rush?
Voices
Finding G-d in the Psych Ward
Bashie’s harrowing struggle against anxiety, depression and bipolar disorder is a journey that takes her from the depths of isolation and despair to the profound joy of knowing that a Jew is never alone.
Bashie’s harrowing struggle against anxiety, depression and bipolar disorder is a journey that takes her from the depths of isolation and despair to the profound joy of knowing that a Jew is never alone.
From Rescuing Seals to Reviving Souls
As an exchange student to Germany I knew all about the Berlin Wall, but nothing about the Western Wall.
As an exchange student to Germany I knew all about the Berlin Wall, but nothing about the Western Wall.
A Torah Walks into a Bar
Back then, a good time meant going to bars, trying new drinks, “playing the field”—all the things secular culture told me would make me happy but which just left me feeling alone and alienated.
Back then, a good time meant going to bars, trying new drinks, “playing the field”—all the things secular culture told me would make me happy but which just left me feeling alone and alienated.
Faith Reconfirmed in a First-Time Uber Ride
I awoke that morning with hesitancy; I ended the day with gratification.
I awoke that morning with hesitancy; I ended the day with gratification.
"And the pit was empty; there was no water in it" (Genesis 37:24). From the implication of what is said, "And the pit was empty," do I not know that there was no water in it? What then is taught by, "there was no water in it"? There was no water, but there were snakes and scorpions in it...
— Talmud, Shabbat 22a
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To one whose self is his body, death of the body is death of the self. But for one whose self is his love, awe and faith, there is no death, only a passing. From a state of confinement in the body, he makes the passage to liberation. He continues to work within this world, and even more so than before.
The Talmud says th...
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