Why is Avimelech making Avraham swear to be truthful and honest? It should be reversed! A lesson for the New Year.
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By Rabbi Michael Merdinger
Why is Avimelech making Avraham swear to be truthful and honest? It should be reversed! A lesson for the New Year.
Why is Avimelech making Avraham swear to be truthful and honest? It should be reversed! A lesson for the New Year.
By Dr. Jeffrey Woolf
Halakhic punctilliousness has conquered the field, but in too many places spirituality has been banished.
Halakhic punctilliousness has conquered the field, but in too many places spirituality has been banished.
By Judah S. Harris
“In every generation one is obligated to see oneself as if one left right now from slavery in Egypt." Is this requirement to personalize the Exodus from Egypt intended as an educational, experiential tool?
“In every generation one is obligated to see oneself as if one left right now from slavery in Egypt." Is this requirement to personalize the Exodus from Egypt intended as an educational, experiential tool?
By Rabbi Dovid Gottlieb
Positive lessons to be gleaned from the most negative of the Four Sons, the rasha.
Positive lessons to be gleaned from the most negative of the Four Sons, the rasha.
By Rabbi David Aaron
Pesach is the time to experience and acknowledge the Divine's unconditional adoration for you.
Pesach is the time to experience and acknowledge the Divine's unconditional adoration for you.
By Rabbi Mitchell Wohlberg
In the rush to extend hands of friendship to each other, do we insist on papering over our uniqueness? Let's celebrate our differences this "holiday" season!
In the rush to extend hands of friendship to each other, do we insist on papering over our uniqueness? Let's celebrate our differences this "holiday" season!
By Rabbi David Aaron
When you look at the world in the light of Chanukah, you realize that the world is completely unnecessary; that you're unnecessary, that everything is unnecessary. And yet the world is here and you are here.
When you look at the world in the light of Chanukah, you realize that the world is completely unnecessary; that you're unnecessary, that everything is unnecessary. And yet the world is here and you are here.
By Rabbi David Aaron
Free choice within G-d's embrace, confession reflecting our love relationship with G-d, and more.
Free choice within G-d's embrace, confession reflecting our love relationship with G-d, and more.
By Rabbi Dovid Gottlieb
Although fear and joy seem to be opposite emotions, the Yamim Noraim provide considerable evidence that they are intimately related.
Although fear and joy seem to be opposite emotions, the Yamim Noraim provide considerable evidence that they are intimately related.
By Rabbi Alex Israel
Do you say Hallel on Yom Ha’atzmaut? With a bracha? Without? The communal controversy.
Do you say Hallel on Yom Ha’atzmaut? With a bracha? Without? The communal controversy.
By Dr. Jeffrey Woolf
Ruminations on Jewish identity, assimilation, and anti-Semitism in the Diaspora - yesterday, and today.
Ruminations on Jewish identity, assimilation, and anti-Semitism in the Diaspora - yesterday, and today.
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