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A noted scholar and researcher, Rabbi Yehuda Shurpin serves as content editor at Chabad.org, and writes the popular weekly Ask Rabbi Y column. Rabbi Shurpin is the rabbi of the Chabad Shul in St. Louis Park, Minn., where he resides with his wife, Ester, and their children.
In practice, we first recite Shehecheyanu, but it's also acceptable to do it the other way around.
The Aseret Hadibrot actually contain 11-15 commandments, depending on how you count.
The emergence of AI technology raises new questions and challenges for Jewish law to consider.
The Septuagint refers to the (Koine) Greek translation of Scripture, thus named because Scripture was rendered by a group of seventy (or 72) elders into Greek.
There is a time-hallowed custom to taste the Shabbat food on Friday afternoon to ensure it properly spiced and not burned.
It is important to tell the story of Exodus with broken bread over the table, like poor people.
On the inner significance of the simple-seeming 15-step Seder song
This classic poem is attributed to Rashi. The Kabbalists, including Rabbi Yitzchak Luria (Arizal), saw deep, esoteric meanings and lessons embedded in its seemingly simple words.
The three words, attributed to Rabbi Judah, we say while spilling wine at the Seder, teach deep insights about the 10 plagues.
One of the four mitzvahs of Purim is to give matanot la’evyonim, “presents to [two] poor people.”
Here are some of the foods that are traditionally eaten by Jews of various communities on Purim.
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