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The Tzemach Tzedek, one of the early Chabad Rebbes, provides a fascinating explanation of the supernal parallels to the seemingly mundane laws of commerce. According to the Amora Reish Lakish, Torah...

WOULDN’T YOU AGREE that it is somewhat presumptuous for a mortal to ask of G-d to see His glory? Well, Moshe did just that when he asked: hareini na et kevodecha...

The Coming Week’s Daf Yomi by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz This essay is based upon the insights and chidushim (original ideas) of Talmudic scholar Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, as published in the Hebrew...

“AND YOU SHALL command the children of Israel.” Tetzaveh begins with a charge to Moshe to command the community of Israel to bring all that is needed to maintain the Menorah....

A number of Midrashim indicate that the departed sentenced to Gehinom enjoy a kind of reprieve on Shabbat. This is not brought as a mere curiosity, but on the contrary comes...

The Coming Week’s Daf Yomi by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz This essay is based upon the insights and chidushim (original ideas) of Talmudic scholar Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, as published in the Hebrew...

While our parsha contains over fifty different mitzvot, one in particular is an everyday concern for most Jews: the prohibition of cooking meat with milk. This law, together with its Rabbinical...

The Coming Week’s Daf Yomi by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz This essay is based upon the insights and chidushim (original ideas) of Talmudic scholar Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, as published in the Hebrew...

THE MATE OF a sailing vessel took a drop too much and became drunk for the first time in his life. The captain recorded in the ship’s log: “Mate drunk today.”...

The Coming Week’s Daf Yomi by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz This essay is based upon the insights and chidushim (original ideas) of Talmudic scholar Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, as published in the Hebrew...