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Haftarat Shabbat Nachamu: Comforting God
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (240+ words) Nachamu nachamu ami - "Comfort, comfort My people" (Isaiah 40:1). With these words we begin the shiva denechemta, the seven haftarot of consolation that carry us from Tisha B'Av to Rosh Hashana. At a basic level, the repetition denotes intensification. The coming…...
For Tanakh will go forth from Gush Etzion...
4+ day, 9+ hour ago (34+ words) An interview with Rabbi Reuven Spolter, Director of English Programming at Herzog College on last week's annual Bible Study marathon - and what he hopes the thousands who attended gained from their days of study....
Moses explained the Torah in 70 languages
1+ week, 2+ day ago (42+ words) Why the need to explain it in seventy languages, as Rashi writes, specifically at this time, as they were about to enter the Land? - what is the meaning of: ’he explained it in seventy languages’? Moses explained the Torah in…...
An open letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury
1+ week, 3+ day ago (379+ words) The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Dame Sarah Mullally, DBE The Archbishop of Canterbury Lambeth Palace, London, SE1 7JU I am writing to you today not just with a sense of deep sadness, but with a profound moral objection to the Church…...
What a heretic learned in the Court of the Maggid
2+ week, 4+ hour ago (1592+ words) The last few portions in the Book of Numbers record the Jewish people’s steady advance through the Wilderness toward the Land of Israel. In this week’s reading, Matot, the Jewish people already find themselves on the threshold of the Holy…...
The call for sacred splendor
2+ week, 1+ day ago (305+ words) The Talmud says that each day, God roars in pain like a grieving lion: "Woe to My children! On account of their sins I have destroyed My House, set fire to My sanctuary, and exiled them among the nations!" (Berakhot…...
The death of the High Priest conundrum
2+ week, 2+ day ago (1512+ words) The Torah relates in our Parasha, that:(38:8-156): ’Hashem spoke to Moshe, saying;’Speak to Bnei Israel and say to them: When you cross the River Jordan to the Land of Canaan, you shall designate cities for yourselves, cities of refuge…...
Your simple prayer
2+ week, 6+ day ago (1915+ words) In the portion read this past Shabbat, Moses, facing his mortality, asks G-d to appoint a successor. May the Lord, God of the spirits of all flesh, choose a man over the congregation who will go out before them and…...
The power, andl limits, of human knowledge
4+ week, 1+ day ago (338+ words) Does physical reality change according to human knowledge? Many unscrupulous social sciences "experts" latched onto Heisenberg's ideas (and misused Einstein's Relativity) to claim that what applies in the micro, subatomic world can be extrapolated to our macro world. Thus, if…...
Who should be learning instead of serving?
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (32+ words) Real time news brief - Who should be learning instead of serving? - Israel National News flashes around the clock are waiting for you on the site Who should be learning instead of serving?...