The Derech Chaim, a commentary on repentance, explains that the human being has a different perspective of the world than God ...
Walk me like a palindrome forward to our common home, looking backwards at the past, thinking our love couldn’t last, though it’s lasted long enough for ...
Returning to the Beginning The Torah teaches that creation has a purpose ... Shirel was a remarkable young woman, and shortly before her death, she discovered Tomer Devorah.
How can we dance again? It’s not just a question for Simchat Torah; it’s a question for every moment we face after loss, after tragedy, after the world splits wide open.
First, he quotes HaRav Tzemach Dovid ... their moral obligations according to the intuitive sensitivities of the Torah prior to its formalization into a fixed set of laws. If a man has two ...
Rabbi Yitzchak reasons that G-d began the Torah this way to address a future question: “When the nations of the world say to the Jewish people, ‘You are thieves; you conquered the land of Israel from ...
Meet Yael Kanarek. The artist behind Toratah, a gender-swapped rewrite of the Hebrew Bible, is coming to the Bay Area.
On the first anniversary of the ... a special liturgy was composed to be said before the morning prayers. It is called 6:29 [the time when the Simhat Torah massacre began],” Marx added.
The Zionist worldview is deceitful and dishonest,' writes Richard Forer, as it 'denies the humanity of the Palestinian people ...
He stresses that people must use the “image of God,” which Genesis 1:27 states God placed ... As Maimonides taught, God did not want the creation of puppets. He did not desire that humans should be ...
The director of the American Jewish Committee’s Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights sought to ...
In that lifespan, it rose to fame as one of the world’s leading Jewish ... his first trip to uncover his family history. “I was initially frustrated because it conflicted with my image of ...