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Shavuot nowadays has two distinct aspects. On the one hand, it is defined by the Torah as the day following fifty days of counting omer (Vayikra 23:16). On the other hand,...

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...

1. Shavuot night is like a wedding without worrying about the color scheme – a night of pure encounter. Torat Hashem Temimah Meshivat Nefesh – Torah heals the soul. Pikudei Hashem...

During the weekday, we are permitted to perform any kind of labor we like. But on Shabbat, we are forbidden to do any kind of creative labor, particularly those 39 archetypical...

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 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 Torah principles of judgment are scrupulously fair. They may favor neither the low nor the high: “don’t favor the poor man, nor glorify the great” (Vayikra 19:15). Fundamentally this applies...

A few days ago, a man approached me with a simple question. Everything about the way he asked made it clear that it was not a detached intellectual inquiry, but came...

Yiddishe Nachas (lit. “Jewish transcendent joy”) is the whimsical expression my friend employs when our minyan skips the short supplicatory prayer known as tachanun. A Monday or Thursday (extra long tachanun)...

Any person whose acts or possessions damage someone else’s property must make good the loss of the damaged party. Laws protecting property are a necessary feature of any legal system; even...