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David Harbater
Feb 13, 2025, 5:15 PM
Yitro: Is Shabbat about God, Others or Ourselves?
The 613 mitzvot—commandments—in the Torah are typically divided into two categories, mitzvot bein adam la-makom—mitzvot between ourselves and God, and mitzvot bein adam le-chavero—mitzvot between one person and another. The question is, to which category does Shabbat—the Sabbath—belong and...
Sharona Margolin Halickman
Feb 10, 2025, 8:53 PM
The true purpose of Shabbat
In Parshat Yitro, we read the Ten Commandments. I would like to focus on the fourth commandment (Shmot 20:8-11) which teaches about Shabbat: Remember the Shabbat day to sanctify it. You may work six days, and do all your work. But...
Chaim Meyer Scheff
Feb 10, 2025, 6:26 AM
Shabbat starts when …
Among my early (but not earliest) recollections, from before I was two digits old, Shabbat evenings took on a dream-like character. It was the custom of our mothers to light one candle more than their family size (and never...
Elchanan Poupko
Feb 10, 2025, 6:12 AM
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Shuls should designate a candywoman
Without the controversy of expanding women's roles in Orthodoxy, a female congregant offering a candyman's traditional fare to the girls is added value for all
Nessya Kamhi
Feb 7, 2025, 6:14 PM
Beshalach: True Freedom
Moving through the desert, the freed Israelites find their source of food in G-d’s manna, the ground around them being covered in dew overnight, waiting to be baked into bread. The Torah is very specific, however, that ביום הששי...
Danielle Sobkin
Feb 3, 2025, 12:00 AM
Between Who I Was and Who I Am Becoming
There are moments when I catch my reflection in a subway window, or a conference glass wall, and I don’t recognize the woman staring back at me. I pause, searching for some trace of the girl I used to...
Yisroel Roll
Jan 31, 2025, 10:22 AM
Hostage Freedom Shabbat, February 7-8: Shabbat Shirah
On Friday night, February 7, 2025, Jews around the world will unite in an unprecedented campaign of solidarity and reconnection—Hostage Freedom Shabbat. Inspired by the start of the reunification of Israeli hostages with their families, this movement encourages every...
Nessya Kamhi
Jan 28, 2025, 1:06 PM
Va’era: Reaching Out
When Moshe repeats G-d’s promise of deliverance to the people of Israel, they respond not with hope, belief and trust in G-d, but with despair. The Torah writes ולא שמעו אל-משה מקצר רוח ומעבדה קשה, ‘and they would not...
Jonathan Muskat
Jan 28, 2025, 12:05 AM
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5 insights on Agam Berger and Sabbath violation
Reflections on a rabbinic ruling that Agam's mother should not drive to see her daughter if the hostage soldier is released on a Saturday
KJ Hannah Greenberg
Jan 27, 2025, 2:37 PM
This-A-Way and That-A-Way
For me, Shabbot meal prep remains a heartening activity. Peeling kohlrabi, beets, or radishes can cause me to remember the source for an incomplete footnote in a shelved essay, at the same time as sautéing leeks, mushrooms, or zucchini...
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