To counter this criminality and immorality, the spiritual work that Jews attempt on Purim is a reestablishment of the boundaries between good and evil. We seek to drown out the name of Haman (the ...

There are two puzzling midrashim regarding mitzvos in the world to come. In Niddah (61b), Rav Yosef declares that the mitzvos will no longer be binding in the world to come, after the resurrection of ...

The Torah reading this Shabbat, like a significant subset of Shabbatot throughout the year, contains two different facets. The first is the reading that is next in line within the ...

How many books of the Tanach begin with a story made for the tabloids? The Book of Esther jumps right in with a dramatic ...

Baruch Spinoza, born Bento de Spinoza in 1632 in Amsterdam, is one of the most radical philosophers in the West. He was a Dutch philosopher of Portugu.

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This week’s Torah portion, T’rumah, represents another abrupt shift in focus within the book of Exodus from the mostly legal material of last week’s portion, Mishpatim, to the first of ...

Talmud Torah building in Simferopol, Crimea, returned to local Jewish community after Russian President Vladimir Putin's intervention.

Today, light is ambient and inexpensive. We leave it on without noticing. Against that backdrop, the requirement of a steady flow of pure oil for the Mishkan’s lighting can easily be underestimated.

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