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Everything about Avraham is love. Everybody loves Avraham and he loves back. Consider that only Avraham, in all of Tanach is called by God, ohavi (1), the one who loves Me....

Our parsha relates that Noach began to work the land and planted a vineyard, and made wine. His subsequent drunkenness had tragic consequences (Bereshit 9:20-21, see Rashi). Drunkenness also led people...

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...

Consider a simple verse that describes the opening of the floodgates : … on that day, all the wellsprings of the great deep, burst open, and the windows of the heavens...

Memory is a multi-billion dollar enterprise these days. I am personally on my fourth PDA and angling for a fifth yet sleeker, more efficient model. Reminder cards and scheduler programs abound....

It might sound like a strange question – but does God (as it were) abide by His laws of Shabbos? The opening paragraph of Friday night Kiddush, (also chapter 2 of...

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 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...

If not for the fact that the Almighty wrote it himself, it would seem blasphemous. Enveloped in the midst of the wondrous but scary song known as Ha’azinu is the tragic...