Purim

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Purim - We are One

Rabbi Jay Kelman

One of the (many) strange features of Purim is the fact that we do not recite Hallel. “The Prophets among them established [Hallel] for the Jewish people, that they should recite it every time for every trouble may it not come upon them and when…

Article

Mar 7, 2023

Letters from Chanukahs and Purims Past (Part 1)

Dr. Malka Z. Simkovich

Audio

Dec 14, 2022

e-TiM: Letters from Chanukahs and Purims Past

Dr. Malka Z. Simkovich

Letters from Chanukahs and Purims Past: Revisiting the Establishment of Holidays and Judea-Diapora Relations Dr. Malka Z. Simkovich Wednesday December 14 12:00pm Eastern 7:00pm Israel In the second and first century BCE, Judean leaders in Jerusalem…

Program

Dec 6, 2022

Purim: To Sing or not to Sing

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Rav Soloveitchik argued that there is no independent field of Jewish philosophy. Rather, this master of Jewish philosophy—with a Ph.D. in neo-Kantian philosophy—claimed that the halacha is an expression of both law and philosophy. It is through the…

Article

Mar 26, 2022