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This series will take place on Wednesdays at 11:00am Eastern, (6:00pm Israel)
Beginning April 27, 2022
In preparation for, and following Shavuot, we will study the laws of the beginning of parashat Mishpatim (Exodus 21) through the eyes of the…
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…
Rabbi Menachem Leibtag, Rachel Sharansky Danziger, Rabbi Dr. Zev Eleff and 7 more
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Yosef and the Ten Plagues
Mondays at 11:00am. March 21…
This three-part series will take place on Wednesdays at 11:00am Eastern
The narrative of the Ten Plagues is the most well-known episode in the Jewish collective memory, and the Pesach seder is perhaps the most widely-celebrated Jewish ritual. Join…
This three-part series will take place on Mondays at 1:00pm Eastern
March 21: Passover Peanut Oil and the Making of an American Humra
Planter's Peanut Oil was America's "Passover Oil" while Lithuanian-trained rabbis led American Orthodoxy. In the…
I write these words as I sit looking out the window at the absolutely beautiful snow that adorns our streets, homes, trees and all else outdoors. If white is the symbol of purity, then this is the purest day we have had in many a year. The street…
Unlike our other holidays, the holiday of Sukkot does not celebrate a particular historical event at a particular moment in time. Rather it commemorates and celebrates the long journey from Egypt to the land of Israel. We sit in the sukkah lema’an,…
It is hard to imagine a more impactful ritual than that of our weekly Torah reading. While its origins date to Moshe Rabbeinu—acting in his capacity as a rabbinic sage, not as prophet delivering G-d's message—and Ezra the scribe, it was not until…
"On the first day, you must take for yourself a fruit of the citron tree, an opened palm frond, myrtle branches, and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice before G-d for seven days" (Vayikra 23:40). While there is also a mitzvah to rejoice on…