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By the Numbers
14 Simple and Surprising Things Jews Do With Fire

Fire enhances life in a great many ways, while simultaneously being one of the most dangerous substances on earth.
Your Questions
Why Does a Husband Stay Home During the First Year?

“When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army…”
Does a Soul Choose Its Family?

Judaism teaches that G-d chooses who our parents are, where we are born, and when.
Voices
My Friend Sami Rohr, the Torah Scholar

Honoring a patron of Jewish life on his yahrzeit, 17 Menachem Av.
Freeman Files
Heels Over Head

Every mitzvah, even a simple rule that we would have figured out on our own, is part of a covenant and connection that entirely transcends our limited reality.
Quiz
Take the Hillel Quiz

What do you know about this great sage?
Podcasts
Syncing With My Soulmate

After she left a Christian cult, she reconnected with her boyfriend--now husband--and embarked on a life journey of sharing Judaism with others.
Eikev: Leaving Jerusalem

From high definition to ordinary life: A meditation on identity, memory, and the challenge of not forgetting.
Parshah
Watch Out for That Last Thread

Anxious Parshah
Video
All Year Round

When it comes to educating young children, how could yeshivas or Jewish schools shut down for the summer? Torah is our life-source, so how can one stop learning for even one day of the year?!
Your fellow is your mirror. If your own face is clean, the image you perceive will also be flawless. But should you look upon your fellow man and see a blemish, it is your own imperfection that you are encountering -- you are being shown what it is that you must correct within yourself.
— Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov
Print Magazine

Noah was a tzadik, a very great man. He saved the entire world. But he didn't approach Abraham's greatness.

When G‑d told Noah to build an ark before the world would be destroyed, Noah built an ark.

But when G‑d told Abraham He was about to destroy the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah—cities corrupt and evil to the core—...