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By the Numbers
12 Western Wall Facts Every Jew Should Know

The Temple Mount's sole remaining structure, visited by millions worldwide for prayer and inspiration.
10 Questions: Take the 10 Tevet Quiz

Are you aware of the significant events that took place on this date?
Halachah for Life
What You Need to Know About Immersing Vessals in a Keilim Mikvah

Learn which utensils need immersion, how to do it, and alternatives when it's not possible.
Your Questions
Why Is Kiddush Said Over Wine?

A series of fascinating reasons culled from more than 2 millennia of Jewish scholarship.
History
Meineket Rivka – The First Published Book by a Jewish Woman

Released posthumously in 1608, this work serves as a Torah-inspired ethical manual for social and spiritual conduct.
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Stories
How I Got a Giant Menorah Into Gaza

In the past seven weeks, Rabbi Levi Mendelson slept very little. His main concern? Aid and relief for soldiers, the wounded and the displaced, and the hostages and victims’ families.
A Festival of Jewish Books

Jewish News
Hebrew Word of the Week
What Can the Hebrew Word for “Life” Teach You?

Voices
BPD Almost Ended My Marriage and My Life. My Faith Saved Me.

“G‑d, You owe me. I’ll live. But You need to take care of me and make this life worth living.”
Parshah
True Leadership

Joseph is portrayed as a bundle of emotion with tears his constant companion. Is this the Joseph who found favor in the eyes of Pharaoh to the degree that he was appointed viceroy of the mighty Egypt?
"And the flax and the barley were destroyed [by the hail] for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was in bud; but the wheat and the spelt were not struck, for they were still pliant" (Exodus 9:31-32). Thus we learn: A person should always be pliant as a reed, and let him never be unyielding as the cedar
— Talmud, Taanit 20b
Print Magazine

The ancient Book of Formation teaches that there is more to the universe than time and space. There is a soul.

Whatever is found in the universe’s soul is found somewhere in its space. And whatever is found in space, is found in time.

In the soul of the universe there is a consciousness from which all consciousness exte...