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By the Numbers
13 Facts You Should Know About the Ten Plagues
A key part of the Exodus story—they demonstrated G-d’s power and delivered justice to Egypt.
A key part of the Exodus story—they demonstrated G-d’s power and delivered justice to Egypt.
Your Questions
Can a DNA Test Determine Jewish Status?
Tribal affiliation follows the direct paternal line, while the question of Jewishness follows the maternal line. Does this mean that genetic testing is a valid way of ascertaining whether one is Jewish or a kohen?
Tribal affiliation follows the direct paternal line, while the question of Jewishness follows the maternal line. Does this mean that genetic testing is a valid way of ascertaining whether one is Jewish or a kohen?
Was the Holocaust a Punishment from G‑d?
Why can we say that biblical tragedies were punishments, yet contemporary ones are “the mysterious way of G-d”? Have today’s rabbis changed their perception of G-d to fit what’s politically correct?
Why can we say that biblical tragedies were punishments, yet contemporary ones are “the mysterious way of G-d”? Have today’s rabbis changed their perception of G-d to fit what’s politically correct?
Halachah for Life
What You Need to Know About Baking
Learn when you must separate challah and how to bake parve bread in a meat or dairy oven.
Learn when you must separate challah and how to bake parve bread in a meat or dairy oven.
Parshah
Why Did the Jews Smear Blood on their Lintels?
Did G-d need a marker to protect the Jews during the Plague of the Firstborn?
Did G-d need a marker to protect the Jews during the Plague of the Firstborn?
Know Who You Are
We are a truly free people. We must never feel that we need to be like anyone else.
We are a truly free people. We must never feel that we need to be like anyone else.
A chassid creates an environment. If he does not, he had better check his own baggage carefully, to see whether his own affairs are in order. The very fact that he fails to create an environment should make him as broken as a splinter. He must demand of himself: What am I doing in this world?
— Rabbi Sholom DovBer of Lubavitch (1860-1920)
Print Magazine
What Is Alef? (A Point Above, a Point Below)
What is an alef?
A point above, a point below, and a line between.
Whatever we may understand of Him
is but an infinitesimal point above.
The only way we can join with Him
is as an infinitesmal point below.
And what empowers us to become this zero-point below
that resonates with the infinite-point above?
Our awe...
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