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Shoftim

Hebrew Word of the Week
What Can the Hebrew Word for “Challenges” Teach You?

Your Questions
Why Do Some Chassidic Jews Have Long Sidelocks (Peyot)?

Since many idol-worshipers used to cut off the hair on the sides of their head, we are required to maintain a physical appearance that distinguishes us.
Halachah for Life
What You Need to Know About Sheva Brachot

Jewish weddings extend celebrations with Sheva Brachot: 6 days of feasts and 7 blessings.
By the Numbers
15 Facts About the Mishkan That Every Jew Should Know

It was G-d's home, built shortly after the exodus from Egypt, and the precursor to the Holy Temple in Jerusalem built by Solomon.
Three Simple Steps To Disarm an Angry Person

Return bullets with flowers. Lie low. Ponder what you like about this person. And then defuse the whole situation with a smile.
10 Questions: Take the Bithiah Quiz

Do you know who she was?
Parshah
If Your Soul Could Speak, What Would It Say?

Most of us safeguard our computers from contracting harmful viruses, but are we as concerned about our own spiritual contamination?
For Your Shoftim 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.
Voices
Feeling G-d’s Love in the Garlic Garden

How can this be a time of looking honestly at our sins, a time of inner transformation, and also a time of being G-d’s beloved?
How great is the benevolence of the Creator! That such a small creature as the human being can bring great delight to the Greatest of all Great, to the one of whom it is said (Psalms 145:3), "There is no delving into His greatness."
— Hayom Yom, Kislev 8
Print Magazine

As you treat others here below, so you are treated above.

Perhaps someone once tried to tell you about the ugly deeds of another.

You really wanted to hear. But you knew that’s not right. Gossip is a form of murder, and you did not wish to be an accomplice.

Mustering all your moral strength, you quietly responded, “I...

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