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May 6, 2026, 11:05 PM

Timeless Marital Advice from the Rav of Rimanov

Among the significant yahrzeit observances during the Hebrew month of Iyar is that of the yahrzeit of Rav Menachem Mendel of Riminov. Commemorated on the 19th of Iyar, Rav Menachem Mendel is generally best known for having delivered Shabbos...

Rachelli Prawer

Mar 26, 2026, 11:11 PM

Dear Miriam: A letter from the ones who stayed

A woman watches the Israelites leaving Egypt from her window (AI-generated, courtesy)

(שֶׁהָיוּ בְיִשְׂרָאֵל בְּאוֹתוֹ הַדּוֹר רְשָׁעִים וְלֹא הָיוּ רוֹצִים לָצֵאת... (רש"י שמות י:כ"ב "... There were who didn't want to leave..." (Rashi on Shemot 10:22, quoting Shemot Raba) עֲבָדִים הָיִינוּ לְפַרְעֹה בְּמִצְרָיִם, וַיּוֹצִיאֵנוּ ה' אֱלֹקֵינוּ מִשָּׁם בְּיָד חֲזָקָה וּבִזְרֹעַ נְטוּיָה. וְאִלּוּ...

Hagit Arieli Chai

Feb 4, 2026, 8:45 PM

The Conceptual World of the Root ע–צ–ם

The Semantic Evolution of ע–צ–ם from Bible to Modern Hebrew In modern Hebrew, derivatives of the triliteral root ע–צ–ם (ʿ–ṣ–m) points a semantic field that links physical structure, selfhood, magnitude, power, and independence. The modern term עצמאות (independence), which became...

Feb 1, 2026, 3:28 PM

The Bones We Carry– Ran Gvili and October 8th

There are moments in the Torah that arrive with thunder. Plagues. Pillars of fire. Seas that split. And then there are moments that slip past us almost unnoticed—quiet details that seem small, but that carry within them an entire...

Feb 1, 2026, 1:42 PM

Parashah Beshalaj — Existential Lessons

Parashah Beshalach — Existential Lessons Learning to Be Free Without Running The first lie of freedom is thinking that it ends when you leave prison. It does not. That is where it begins. Beshalach shows that the body can leave Egypt...

Andy Blumenthal

Feb 1, 2026, 5:02 AM

The 250th Hostage: A Divine Homecoming

This week, we witnessed a profound miracle that bridges the ancient past with our modern struggle. After 843 days in captivity in Gaza, Israeli authorities have recovered and brought home the body of Ran Gvili, the final hostage from...

Jan 31, 2026, 4:16 PM

Beshalach 2026 — The Digital Sea and the Desert of Attention Last night you woke up at 3:47 a.m. Not from a nightmare, but from a notification. You checked it. Then another. Then another. By the time you tried to...

Jan 30, 2026, 5:35 PM

Packing Tuppim in the Dark: The Power of Women’s Song

This shabbat is named Shabbat Shira, for shirat hayam, the song of the sea, the moment in the book of Shemot where the sea splits and - az yashir Moshe - Moshe leads Bnei Yisrael in a song of...

Talyah Ginsberg

Jan 30, 2026, 4:31 PM

From Pharaoh to Sinai: How God Reprogrammed a Traumatized Nation for Freedom

There is a comforting lie we tell ourselves about the Exodus. We imagine the Israelites leaving Egypt healed, whole, spiritually ready. We picture gratitude, songs, and relief. We imagine a people who know who they are. That is not what happened. What...

Ilana Gimpelevich

Jan 30, 2026, 4:30 PM

Learning to See Like We Did at the Sea

I was always bothered by the midrash cited in regards to the splitting of the Red Sea: רַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר אוֹמֵר: מְנַיִן אַתָּה אוֹמֵר, שֶׁרָאֲתָה שִׁפְחָה עַל הַיָּם מַה שֶּׁלֹּא רָאוּ יְשַׁעְיָה וִיחֶזְקֵאל? Rabbi Eliezer said: From where do you derive that...

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