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The Talmud mentions a number of habits which can lead to forgetfulness in Torah study. They are: Eating something which was nibbled by a cat or a mouse Eating the heart...

You wouldn’t think so, but in most Ashkenazi synagogues around the world, Bnei Yisrael’s forty two desert journeys that open our parsha are a reason to break...

The siddur is the book of Jewish faith. Scholars of Judaism, noting that it contains little systematic theology, have sometimes concluded that it is a religion of deeds not creeds, acts...

The gemara tells us that there is a difference between the way men and women evaluate a potential match. “Rav Yehuda said in the name of Rav, it is forbidden for...

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...

Shabbat At Home Shabbat is a celebration of the Jewish home, and the home is the matrix of Judaism. The prophets compared the relationship between God and Israel with that between...

The daughters of Tzelafchad, those righteous and smart women, petition Moshe for a piece of land in Eretz Yisrael (Bamidbar 27, their father died and why should their family lose out)....

This week’s parsha talks about the tumah of a dead body, and the way to become purified from it. Nowadays, the main halakhic importance of this tum’a is that Kohanim are...

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...

“Meaning in Mitzvot” generally discusses only mitzvot that are practically carried out in our day. Today we will discuss a mitzva that many, though not most, authorities believe that we can...