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By the Numbers
10 Biblical Heroes with Traumatic Childhoods
Many of the Bible’s most famous personalities had difficult childhoods, marked by sibling rivalry, abuse, loss of loved ones, or worse.
Many of the Bible’s most famous personalities had difficult childhoods, marked by sibling rivalry, abuse, loss of loved ones, or worse.
Your Questions
Why Don’t We Invite People to a Brit Milah?
Many have the custom to simply make the time and place known, without inviting anyone in particular to attend. Here's why.
Many have the custom to simply make the time and place known, without inviting anyone in particular to attend. Here's why.
Podcast
My 23-Year-Old, Pregnant Daughter Was Gone in a Moment
Nechama Laber devoted her life's mission to teaching and inspiring others through Torah and creativity. Now her work is guided by her daughter's gentle humility and devotion to others.
Nechama Laber devoted her life's mission to teaching and inspiring others through Torah and creativity. Now her work is guided by her daughter's gentle humility and devotion to others.
The Tribe and the Other
What makes righteousness Jewish? Can a person truly love all of humanity? Or does that love, spread too thin, turn into something else?
What makes righteousness Jewish? Can a person truly love all of humanity? Or does that love, spread too thin, turn into something else?
History
Parshah
The Untold Story of Lot and His Daughters
The bulk of rabbinic commentators, view Lot’s daughters as women of fine and even noble intentions.
The bulk of rabbinic commentators, view Lot’s daughters as women of fine and even noble intentions.
Video
Behind Every Great Jew Is a Great Mother
Sarah, the first Jewish mother, is a shining example of the great power that every woman has over her family and our entire nation. It was Sarah who insisted that Isaac, not Ishmael, continue Abraham’s progeny. It was she who raised Isaac in his formative years, instilling within him the fortitude to stand up to all tests, and to become the second Patriarch of the Jewish People.
Sarah, the first Jewish mother, is a shining example of the great power that every woman has over her family and our entire nation. It was Sarah who insisted that Isaac, not Ishmael, continue Abraham’s progeny. It was she who raised Isaac in his formative years, instilling within him the fortitude to stand up to all tests, and to become the second Patriarch of the Jewish People.
When you come into the land which G-d is giving you... You shall take of the first of the fruit of the earth... and put into a basket. And you shall go to the place which G-d will choose to have His Name dwell there...
— Deuteronomy 26:1-2
Print Magazine
A Torah scroll is a high-precision document.
Journey deep inside the mysteries of this scroll and you will discover an amazing network of words and letters similar to the neuro-network of a human being.
Each letter of the scroll is a world of its own, surrounded by its own white space, without any other letter touch...
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