For the previous Hanukkah essays, click here. For a film about Rabbi Shapira zts"l, click here. The Greeks’ main battle was in the spiritual realm: “To cause the Jewish people to forget Hashem’s Torah ...
To read the first article in this series, Hanukkah - The celebration of the Oral Law, click here. Note: Footnotes have been omitted due to programming restraints. In the time of the second Beit ...
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You don’t need to be religious to enjoy the weekly Torah portion
Every shabbos, Jews in synagogues of all denominations hear the cantor, rabbi or a layperson chant that week’s Torah portion ...
What difference does a translation make? If we take the Torah seriously, a lot. Whether we believe it was given directly by God to Moses, or just that it’s the foundational text of our identity as ...
Rabba Anat Sharbat, the unofficial “rabbi of Hostages Square,” wept as she recited the Shehechiyanu blessing after lighting ...
Hebrew vowels make their appearance through ‘nikkud’—a system of 16 different symbols representing 5 basic vowel sounds. These symbols are strategically placed around the letters to guide ...
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