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"And he [Yaakov] sent Judah ahead of him l'horot, to make preparations, in Goshen (…

There is something surreal about 92,000 people gathering at a football stadium on New Year’s…

Before there were clocks and standard time, time was determined in relation to the position of the…

That one has a natural love for one's place of birth is a truism long recognized by our…

One of the painful realties of Jewish life is that the Jewish people are often judged by a double…

Our Sages attach the appellation Tzadik, righteous one, to Yosef, presumably because of his ability…

“And it does not leave the womb before it is made to take an oath…and what is the oath…

How common it is for people to return from a funeral and realize how little they knew about the…

Being pregnant with one’s first child is the best of times. One imagines a talmid…

“And Yaakov was a pure man, dwelling in the tents” (Breisheet 25:27). Like his father…

In our last post, we discussed that seven days after giving birth to a boy and 14 after a girl, the…

Death, as we have often noted, is the primary source of tumah, impurity, with a corpse classified…

"And Sarah lived one hundred years, twenty years and seven years; these are the years of Sarah…

It is hard to imagine more influential institutions of Jewish learning than those of Beit Hillel…

One of the fundamental issues of debate amongst observant Jews regards the degree of openness with…

“And you shall live by them” (Vayikra 18:5). The mitzvot of the Torah are meant to…

Our rabbis famously debate the righteousness of Noach. Was he a tzadik only relative to the corrupt…