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Va'era
By the Numbers
12 Savory and Surprising Things Jews Do With Salt
This humble kitchen staple shows up in Jewish life in many diverse ways.
This humble kitchen staple shows up in Jewish life in many diverse ways.
Your Questions
Is Vaping Kosher?
Marketed as a healthier alternative to smoking or as tool to stop smoking, it has turned into a widespread practice.
Marketed as a healthier alternative to smoking or as tool to stop smoking, it has turned into a widespread practice.
The Freeman Files
G-d Is a Dangerous Idea
If G‑d is not to be a dangerous idea, G‑d must be good. But that would seem to be a small G‑d, a defined G‑d, limited by the parameters of goodness. How can we believe in a G‑d that contains all of existence and yet believe that His goodness is real and absolute? There is only one solution, but it is a very strange and radical solution...
If G‑d is not to be a dangerous idea, G‑d must be good. But that would seem to be a small G‑d, a defined G‑d, limited by the parameters of goodness. How can we believe in a G‑d that contains all of existence and yet believe that His goodness is real and absolute? There is only one solution, but it is a very strange and radical solution...
Voices
The Honor of Being the Cousin: The Legacy of Rabbi Leima Minkowicz
He took a girl who had just moved to New York that very day, barely knowing a soul, and provided me with a family—a real family—that he made sure I knew I would always be a part of.
He took a girl who had just moved to New York that very day, barely knowing a soul, and provided me with a family—a real family—that he made sure I knew I would always be a part of.
Parshah
Solutions With a Soul
Every human being has incalculable worth; differences in ability are superimposed upon our innate humanity.
Every human being has incalculable worth; differences in ability are superimposed upon our innate humanity.
Learning From the Rebbe
Whose Peace? Whose Justice? A Response to Well-Meaning but Naive Readings of Torah Morality
The eleventh installment of End the Cycle.
The eleventh installment of End the Cycle.
The materials donated for the Mishkan correspond to the components of the human being. "Gold" is the soul; "silver," the body; "copper," the voice; "blue," the veins; "purple," the flesh; "red," the blood; "flax," the intestines; "goat hair," the hair; "ram skins dyed red," the skin of the face; "tachash skins," the scalp; "shittim wood," the bones; "oil for lighting," the eyes; "spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense," the nose, mouth and palate; "shoham stones and gemstones for setting," the kidneys and the heart.
— Midrash HaGadol
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“Nothing G‑d creates is for nothing. If not for the frogs, how would G‑d have taken retribution on the Egyptians?” (Midrash)
Now, this is a strange statement. Why should G‑d need frogs, of all creatures, to deal with Ancient Egypt? He's G-d. He has no shortage of means to accomplish His ends.
The answer: Because, to P...
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