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“Every day they [the mitzvot of the Torah] should be like new”. With the exception of Coca-Cola, we…

The Torah was given to us on at least two occasions. The first revelation, just weeks after the…

Sefer Bamidbar can be viewed as a book of missed opportunities. A small group of Jewish slaves—the …

“These are the things that one eats the fruit of in this world and the principal remains in the…

We tend to categorize mitzvot as either mitzvot between man and G-d or mitzvot between man and man…

“And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap all the way to the edges of your…

While facts do not lie, they often do not tell the whole truth. Facts are facts but facts still…

“And G-d spoke to Moshe after the death of the two children of Aharon when they came close before G…

Jewish life is all too often rather chaotic. Yet Pesach and Yom Kippur, the two central holidays of…

It is hard to argue that there is a more impactful and important rabbinic decree than that of kriat…

“Rabban Gamliel would say: Anyone who does not say these three things on Pesaḥ has not fulfilled…

Judaism teaches that everything has the potential for holiness; after all everything in this world…

There is no greater joy than having a child. From a religious perspective, bringing new life into…

“Moshe then inquired, darosh darash, about the goat of the sin offering, and it had been burned” (…

One of the major debates in Jewish thought relates to the appropriateness of ascribing reasons for…

The decree has been promulgated and publicized through the empire. 127 provinces have received “…

Jewish etiquette – and law – teach that one should not enter one’s own home, how much more so the…

"These are the accounts, pekudei, of the tabernacle, the tabernacle of testimony, as…