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Our holidays form natural units, as none truly stand alone. The 49 days of the omer link Pesach to Shavuot. We begin the holiday cycle by celebrating our freedom from slavery, a prelude to service of G-d cemented at Sinai. Pesach, Shavuot and Sukkot…
“Rav Yochanan said: Jerusalem was destroyed only because they followed the laws of the Torah” (Bava Metzia 30b).
The Talmud is incredulous at such an assertion – should they follow the laws of violence they query? The Talmud explains that what Rav…
Dr. Yael Ziegler, Rabbi Doron Perez, Rabbi Jay Kelman and 5 more
Please join us online for a day of learning and reflection:
11:00amDestruction and Discovery: Second Temple Jerusalem Through the Lens of Archaeology
Shulie Mishkin
12:00pmThe Destruction of Jerusalem - Who's to Blame: the Farmers, the Bankers, or…
The Harmony of Dissonance: A Study of Megilat Eikhah
Rabbi Yitzchak Etshalom
Mondays, June 26 to July 24 - 10:00am Eastern, 5:00pm Israel
(Please note that class on MONDAY, JULY 17 will be at 9:00am Eastern.)
The mournful tones of Megilat Eikhah…
It is the omer, a measure of barley, that unites the Biblical holidays of Pesach and Sukkot. With no calenderic date Shavuot occurs on the day after the counting of seven weeks “from the day on which you bring the omer, sheaf, of elevation offering…
A legal system by its very nature is detail oriented. While laws represent the values of any given society, a law once established takes on an independent life of itself. It is for this reason that laws must apply in all situations, even in those…
“Go out and learn what Lavan the Aramean sought to do to Yaakov, our father. Pharaoh only decreed on the males but Lavan sought to uproot everything. As it is stated, 'An Aramean was destroying my father and he went down to Egypt'” (Devarim 26:5).…
Rabbi Jay Kelman, Rabbi Alex Israel, Rabbi Dr. Martin Lockshin and 12 more
2023 Pesach Learning Series
Wednesday March 22 - Sunday April 16
All Times are Eastern
Why is the Last Day of Pesaca Yom tov
Tuesaday April 11, 9:30 am
Rabbi Jay Kelman
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Taxonomy of Children, Taxonomy of…
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…