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Bamidbar
By the Numbers
11 Shavuot Myths and Misconceptions
Ready to challenge some things you think you always knew? Let's go!
Ready to challenge some things you think you always knew? Let's go!
10 Questions: Take the Deserts in the Torah Quiz
Do you know the Sinai from the Sahara and the Israelites from the Ishmaelites?
Do you know the Sinai from the Sahara and the Israelites from the Ishmaelites?
Parshah
Are You Lonely?
We believe we're all living completely separate lives, but that's as much of an illusion as believing a blood cell isn't part of, and dependent on, the body in which it lives.
We believe we're all living completely separate lives, but that's as much of an illusion as believing a blood cell isn't part of, and dependent on, the body in which it lives.
The Census: Making Each Person Count
Each Jew holds a designated place within the cohesive structure of the Jewish people.
Each Jew holds a designated place within the cohesive structure of the Jewish people.
For Your Bamidbar Hakhel 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.
Your Questions
Where Is Mount Sinai?
The fact is that no one knows for sure. By looking at the story of the last person to visit, we can understand why.
The fact is that no one knows for sure. By looking at the story of the last person to visit, we can understand why.
How Do I Get My Kids to Listen?
Once we as parents make the decision about what is allowed and what is not, our kids will hear it in our voices.
Once we as parents make the decision about what is allowed and what is not, our kids will hear it in our voices.
Essay
How Shimon Hatzadik Knew He Would Die
The acronym MGI—Most Generous Interpretation—essentially conveys the wisdom of our sages, “Judge everyone to the side of merit.”
The acronym MGI—Most Generous Interpretation—essentially conveys the wisdom of our sages, “Judge everyone to the side of merit.”
How Prayer Is Like Super Glue
As Jews, we naturally have a spiritual tug in the form of a desire to escape the confines of reality and experience a sublime experience. Prayer is where this happens.
As Jews, we naturally have a spiritual tug in the form of a desire to escape the confines of reality and experience a sublime experience. Prayer is where this happens.
Voices
My First Visit Home After the Passing of My Wife and Infant
Father of 13 and Chabad emissary to the Virgin Islands shares candidly what it was like to come home after a half-year of heartbreak and suffering.
Father of 13 and Chabad emissary to the Virgin Islands shares candidly what it was like to come home after a half-year of heartbreak and suffering.
My Father's Song
With all the upheaval, there was nothing to do but sing. He sang on the boat to Canada and whenever else life got tough.
With all the upheaval, there was nothing to do but sing. He sang on the boat to Canada and whenever else life got tough.
Story
The Teacher and the Russian Minister of Printing and Censorship
As they walked, a well-dressed man approached them and asked the teacher from Mogilev, “Do you recognize me?”
As they walked, a well-dressed man approached them and asked the teacher from Mogilev, “Do you recognize me?”
Lifestyle
The Egyptian Exodus involved breaking the bonds and limitation of Egypt in order to escape it. Chassidic teaching instructs to take this one step further: to step out of worldly limitations and bounds while remaining in the world. While functioning within the world we must transcend its limitations.
— Hayom Yom, Tevet 25
Print Magazine
The sound of the shofar
is not the cry of a human voice.
It is the howl of an animal’s horn.
It is a cry so primal, so raw,
that the mind ceases to ponder,
the heart suspends its throb.
With the fury of a beast pent up in its cage,
the naked essence of the soul bursts out,
howling, ripping through heaven’s c...
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